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In Skinny Japan, New Company Offers Plus-Sized People 'For Rent'

In Skinny Japan, New Company Offers Plus-Sized People ‘For Rent’

by Clémence Guimier June 10, 2021May 23, 2025

Protests against the Tokyo Olympics earlier this month

Hosting Tokyo Olympics During COVID Is Like Gyokusai Suicide

by Lisa LANE May 13, 2021May 22, 2025

Despite several waves of infection, countries in East Asia were able to disclose much lower death tolls than those in the West

In The News south korea

Regional Immunity? Why Asia Has Avoided The Worst Of COVID-19

by Anne Sophie Goninet January 8, 2021May 22, 2025

Temperature checks at Camp Courtney, Okinawa

In The News united states

COVID-19: New Fears About U.S. Military Bases In Japan

by Hannah Steinkopf-Frank September 8, 2020May 22, 2025

Japanese newspaper headlines when Carlos Ghosn was first arrested in November 2018

In The News justice

What The Ghosn Affair Says About Japan And The West

by Natalie Malek April 23, 2019May 20, 2025

Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito during a visit in Malaysia

Naruhito Now: A Closer Portrait of Japan’s Next Emperor

by Laura Lin April 22, 2019May 22, 2025

Detail of photograph by Joe Rosenthal

Watch: OneShot — Raising The Flag On Iwo Jima, A Look Back

by Worldcrunch February 22, 2019May 20, 2025

Crossing into new territory

Society migration

It’s Time For Japan To Open Up To Foreign Workers

by Worldcrunch February 17, 2019May 20, 2025

Economic headaches ahead

Brexit Deadlock Spooks Asian Corporate Heavyweights

by Worldcrunch January 19, 2019May 21, 2025

Shinzo Abe lending a hand

How Japan Can Help Soften U.S.-China Showdown

by Worldcrunch January 16, 2019May 20, 2025

Closer than ever, Japan's Abe and India's Modi

Where The Geopolitical Chessboard Makes Sense Today: Asia

by Worldcrunch December 8, 2018May 20, 2025

Japanese companies are increasingly letting employees work from home

In The News culture

Teleworking In Japan: Antidote For An Overworked Nation

by Laura Lin September 4, 2018May 20, 2025

Remembrance ceremony in Hiroshima

In The News japan

73 Years On, Hiroshima And Nagasaki Survivors Still Grapple With Guilt

by Worldcrunch August 8, 2018May 24, 2025

People walking by an electronic board showing stock indexes on Jan. 30, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan

Why The Asian Economy Can’t Escape Trump’s Bad Choices

by Lisa LANE May 31, 2018May 22, 2025

FANUC Robot Assembly Demo

In The News japan

The Giant Japanese Robot Company You’ve Never Heard Of

by Signi Livingstone-Peters May 8, 2018May 20, 2025

Graduation at Waseda University in Japan

In The News china

Japan v. China: Who Has The Next ‘Lucky’ Generation?

by Laura Lin March 23, 2018May 22, 2025

In the streets of Tokyo

In The News decline

Japan, When The Signs Of Decline Are Not About Economics

by Lisa LANE February 6, 2018May 22, 2025

Shigeru Yokota, father of kidnapped Megumi

In The News japan

Japan Haunted By Chilling History Of North Korean Kidnappings

by Torrence Otten November 28, 2017May 20, 2025

A Toyota plant in Kentucky in 2008

In The News japan

Japan v. U.S.? Trump Is So Eighties On Trade

by Worldcrunch November 10, 2017May 21, 2025

Time for take-off (on an earlier Trump visit)

In The News japan

Buckle Up For Trump’s 10-Day Blast To Asia

by Worldcrunch November 3, 2017May 21, 2025

Something in the air?

In The News aging

Are We Ready For The Japanization Of The World Economy?

by Worldcrunch October 29, 2017May 20, 2025

WWII memorial in Okinawa, Japan

In The News world war ii

Japan Facing World War II Truth Before Last Witnesses Die

by Laura Lin September 22, 2017May 24, 2025

No women allowed

In The News women's rights

Five Places Around The World Where Women Are (Still) Banned

by Sadia Rao July 27, 2017May 20, 2025

Gabriel García Márquez in Osaka, Japan

In The News colombia

Japan’s Unlikely Love Affair With ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’

by Alidad Vassigh July 3, 2017May 22, 2025

Sapporo Tanuki Koji Shopping Street in Hokkaido, Japan

In The News japan

Ghost Cities, Demographic Lessons From Japan To China

by Laura Lin June 22, 2017May 20, 2025

Graduation day?

In The News education

5 Strange-But-True College Courses Around The World

by Sadia Rao June 12, 2017May 20, 2025

Miniature statues sold at Komatsuji temple

In The News japan

Preserving Japanese Artifacts, One 3D-Printed Replica At A Time

by [email protected] May 4, 2017May 20, 2025

A BMW plant in Spartanburg, U.S.A.

In The News trump

As Trump Revs Up Car Industry Rhetoric, Japan Should Ride It Out

by [email protected] February 10, 2017May 20, 2025

Abe is above 60% in the polls

Geopolitics politics

Gambling In Japan, A Measure Of Shinzo Abe’s Staying Power

by Laura Lin January 2, 2017May 20, 2025

Inside the Panasonic vegetable farm in Singapore

Economy technology

In Fukushima, An Electronics Maker Bets On Farming Inside Factories

by Worldcrunch December 31, 2016May 22, 2025

The dangers of being a workaholic in Japan

In The News japan

In Japan, A Troubling Link Between Samurai Spirit And Workaholics

by lisa November 22, 2016May 20, 2025

Miyake, turning the fashion world upside-down

Society innovation

From Japan, Unpacking Miyake’s Pleated Revolution

by Worldcrunch June 10, 2016May 22, 2025

Tokyo's Akihabara district, where everything revolves around Chinese tourists

Food / Travel economy

Japanese Hosts And Chinese Tourists, It’s Complicated

by Worldcrunch April 6, 2016May 23, 2025

A member of the Yakuza shows off his tattoos during the Sanja Matsuri in Tokyo, 2014.

Society decline

Japan’s Once Influential Yakuza Mobsters Lose Their Grip

by Patrick Randall April 5, 2016May 22, 2025

A humanoid robot in Tokyo

Economy artificial intelligence

Can Artificial Intelligence Solve Japan’s Demographic Decline?

by Bertrand Hauger March 24, 2016May 22, 2025

Comugi, a Japanese-bob-tail crossbreed

Society animals

Cats Purr Past Dogs To Become Japan’s Favorite Pet

by Worldcrunch March 21, 2016May 23, 2025

Life out of the debris

Future earthquake

Marine Life Flourishes In Underwater Fukushima Debris

by Carl Karlsson March 11, 2016May 23, 2025

Decimated pine forest near Chernobyl site

Future public health

Fukushima And Chernobyl, Two Anniversaries For Measuring Damage

by Worldcrunch March 9, 2016May 23, 2025

A 2013 visit to Fukushima by Japanese PM Shinzo Abe (in red helmet)

Geopolitics earthquake

Five Years Later, Still Trying To Count Fukushima Deaths

by Worldcrunch March 7, 2016May 22, 2025

Enoshima Tower in Kamakura, Japan

Emergency-Stair Climbing, Japan’s Improbable Fitness Craze

by Patrick Randall February 10, 2016May 23, 2025