Host clubs are bars where young male hosts serve women drinks and charm them with conversation. Typically, one evening can cost a group hundreds of thousands of yen, sometimes even millions.

Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--The Special Committee on Political Reform of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of ...

Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--Major food and beverage makers are planning markups for 4,225 products in Japan in April, ...

Many small businesses in Japan face the issue of finding a successor to continue running them, as children of the current owners often show no interest in taking over. The M&A broker service ...

The forerunner of kanten is tokoroten noodles, created by boiling tengusa or similar seaweed, setting the strained liquid into blocks and then using a special press cutter to form it into noodles.

The possibilities of holding the same-day elections and expanding the ruling coalition, which currently consists of the ...

Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Pref., March 31 (Jiji Press)--The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team will make a ...

Beginning 1 p.m. the same day, women can anonymously drop off their babies up to four weeks old round the clock at a place in ...

Osaka, April 5 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Saturday that he plans to speak to U.S. President Donald Trump by phone next week to discuss the president’s reciprocal ...

Children who grew up in the social care system, in facilities like group homes or foster care, and then go on to enter the world care called “care leavers” in Japan. A group of these care ...

Japan’s overall balance of trade for 2024 showed a deficit of almost ¥5.5 trillion, but it had a bilateral trade surplus of some ¥8.6 trillion with the United States. Japan’s balance of ...

The International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons (IGEP), which discussed ways to realize a ...