KITAKYUSHU, Japan – In 1982, a peculiar commercial aired on televisions across Japan. An actress in a pink floral dress and an updo drops paint on her hand and futilely attempts to wipe it off with ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Cleanliness has long been next to godliness for the hygiene-conscious Japanese, but fortune-tellers are now advising those who want to succeed in life to start by scrubbing the ...

Many visitors regard Japan as the gateway to the future. The country is so much more technologically advanced than the majority of other nations, from huge robots that serve dinner, to vending ...

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Japan’s Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to restrict a transgender person from using certain bathrooms, in its first ruling on LGBTQ people’s rights in the workplace. The case involved an ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that restrictions imposed by a government ministry on a transgender female employee’s use of restrooms at her workplace are illegal, in a landmark ...