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An estimated 2,900 foreign travelers visited Japan in April, down 99.9 percent from a year earlier, amid the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest government data. It is the first time that the monthly figure, which was released Wednesday, has slipped below the 10,000 mark since...

The threat of sexual harassment is an all-too-real concern for students seeking jobs, and it is sometimes their university alumni who use promises of patronage to abuse their position of trust. University students looking to enter the workforce commonly contact alumni at their target companies...

Foreign tourists dreaming of having 50 percent of their flight and travel to Japan paid for by the government may need to think again. The Japan Tourism Agency on Wednesday dispelled rumors that the country is planning to offer a campaign that would pay half of visitors’ expenses as it seeks t...

The Japanese government plans to completely lift the state of emergency over the novel coronavirus pandemic on Monday, before it expires on May 31, government sources said Sunday. At a meeting of its coronavirus response task force on Monday, the government will decide to remove the emergency ...

David Kvien, a 29-year-old Danish 3D artist from Tokyo, left Japan for Copenhagen on March 20 to attend to funeral arrangements for his father, who had passed away from a heart attack just a day before. The flight he planned to take back to Japan coincided with the March 27 rollout of Japan’s ...