Japan's central and local governments, alongside many businesses, started the year's first day of work on Monday, taking on a ...

Japan is moving toward a 10 percent foreign population far faster than official projections, with dozens of municipalities ...

Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this ...

Residents are protesting a planned housing facility for foreign workers, exposing the conflict between Japan’s need for labor and anxieties over immigration. The economy of Kutchan, a town on Japan’s ...