TOKYO – When 22-year-old Hinako Mori moved to Tokyo in 2024, she chose to work part-time at Don Quijote, a major discount retailer, for one main reason – it does not care what colour her hair is.

TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - When 22-year-old Hinako Mori moved to Tokyo last year, she chose to work part-time at Don Quijote, a major discount retailer, for one main reason - it doesn't care what ...

Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, told U.S. President Donald Trump at their meeting in Tokyo earlier this week that Japan would find it difficult to ban LNG imports from Russia, ...

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Japan's Diet on Friday ratified a key defense pact allowing the deployment of Japanese forces for joint drills with Filipino troops in the Philippines, Manila's top envoy to Tokyo said. "We welcome ...

During a discussion on job prospects in Japan, Professor Ashok Kumar Chawla, an advisor to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, noted that Japan, facing a population decline, is actively ...

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K-pop star Ok Taec-yeon has teamed up with Japanese actor Hayato Isomura for Netflix BL romance series Soulmate, confirmed the streamer on its official Instagram handle with a poster of the duo on ...

A decade-long love story of two young men is the subject of Netflix‘s latest Asian series, Soul Mate. The drama stars Japanese actor Hayato Isomura and Korean singer-actor Ok Taec-yeon from boyband ...

Yeah until they are all banned when one tiny thing goes wrong after a foreign home caregiver does something they not supposed to do that doesn't follow the manual. Watch this space. The firms are ...