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Japanese society

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Why eight Tokyo minutes from office to metro is too long

    The city is seeing a boom in commercial construction but labour scarcity has made location a critical concern for companies

    Commuters stand on the platform and look at their phones as a train pulls into the metro station
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Japan woos military recruits with bigger steaks and better beds

    Military tries to reverse recruitment shortfall as population shrinks and ages

    Soldiers at an army garrison on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Mark C O’Flaherty
    Robot sex, murder and inspiring interiors: the dystopian allure of TV’s Sunny

    The sci-fi show is deliciously dark, but its Japanese architecture and design are rays of inspiration

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Japan’s new banknotes might have come too late

    An army of vending machines is defying the drive to cashlessness but recalibrating them will be expensive

    A hand holds a purse with cash sticking out of the top
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    FT Magazine
    How to fail with grace, the ekiden way

    Running in one of Japan’s beloved long-distance relay races taught me an important lesson

  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    News in-depthJapan
    Japan blocks view of Mount Fuji after local backlash against tourist hordes

    Barrier to deter sightseers highlights friction generated by rising visitor numbers drawn by weak yen

    A montage showing a worker in a helmet adjusting a barrier in the foreground with a yellow-toned Mount Fuji towering in the background
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    When the customer is not always right

    Demographics are squeezing Japan’s ability to continue to deliver high levels of service

    Illustration of a woman’s face in profile looking at a miniature bottle of Coca-Cola with a price tag hanging on it.
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Too scared to quit? An agency will do that for you

    A wave of activism is coming from a quarter Japanese companies did not expect

    María Hergueta illustration of a person in black trousers, white shirt and tie, carrying a business bag - kicking an office chair
  • Sunday, 14 April, 2024
    Jemima Kelly
    Sakura season and the art of savouring

    The beauty of cherry blossoms lies in their ephemerality — a hard thing for modern mankind to grasp

    Ben Hickey illustration of a person sitting under a tree with a pink canopy, its pink blossoms falling on the ground.
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Japan’s native population declines at record rate as births plunge

    Latest data shows number of Japanese nationals falling by almost 100 an hour on average despite government efforts

    A woman pushing a buggy and walking with a child in a street in Kawasaki, Japan
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast26 min listen
    Is Japan at a turning point?

    Optimism is tempered by concerns about a shrinking workforce

  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Trust in AI to fix Japan’s worker shortage, says top recruiter

    Job agency chief warns that while the latest tech tools are producing more candidates, public mistrust is hindering progress

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    Global InsightLeo Lewis
    Marriage holds key to Japan’s falling births

    Reversing population decline will need more than just economic incentives

    A couple poses for a wedding photograph near cherry trees in bloom in the Yonomori area on April 2, 2023 in Tomioka, Fukushima, Japan.
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan’s stock market is back after 34 years but the country is deeply changed

    Share prices may have finally overtaken level of 1989 but sentiment in Tokyo is nowhere near as bullish as it was

    REF only: Gameboy, iPhone 15, Columbia pictures logo, PS5, Industrial Bank of Japan,  Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Why Japan may have outgrown ‘go for it’

    The word ‘Gambatte!’ is much-loved in the country’s lexicon, but could it be about to outlive its purpose?

    María Hergueta illustration of Sony stereo Walkman, wireless phone and pocky snack sticks and a drink
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    KDDI Corp
    KDDI bets on Japan’s greying shoppers with bid for Lawson convenience stores

    Mobile carrier teams up with Mitsubishi to take joint control of 15,000-strong chain

    A Lawson store in Tokyo
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese business & finance
    Japan turns to avatars, robots and AI to tackle labour crisis

    Farmers, retailers and builders rethink business models as world’s fastest-ageing society runs out of workers

    An avatar at Lawsons retail store in Japan
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    Japan
    Deaths, blackouts and evacuations follow Japan coast earthquake

    Military sent to rescue people trapped after shocks kill four and leave thousands of homes without power

    Damage at a shrine in Kanazawa after a powerful earthquake hit Japan on Monday
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    Leo Lewis
    Death, the taxi and the Tokyo pigeon killer

    To many, the legal pursuit of an avicidal driver will look like a sign of gross fiscal indiscipline

    Illustration of a pigeon standing on top of a yellow taxi.
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Leo Lewis
    How Godzilla became Japan’s most put-upon worker

    The latest in the monster series can be seen as an allegory that lets the country move on from past traumas

    María Hergueta illustration of Godzilla holding on to the world.
  • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
    Japanese business & finance
    Start-ups challenge culture of the Japanese salaryman

    Younger workers have new expectations of risk, reward and responsibility 

    Black and white photo of rows of smartly dressed young Japanese people with a red circle overlaid on the image
  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    News in-depthJapanese business & finance
    Japan’s scallop industry seeks safe harbour from China ban

    Investors say Beijing’s sanctions could offer an unexpected boost by creating a national champion

    Scallops on shells on a grill in Osaka, Japan
  • Friday, 6 October, 2023
    Watches & Jewellery
    Japanese appetite grows for more independent European brands

    The country has become the world’s second largest jewellery market, trailing only the US

  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    Leo Lewis
    Why Japan’s demographics scream ‘buy’

    Labour deficit means companies are freed from having to keep excess staff and can focus on what they are best at

    Illustration of a man standing next to a giant globe pointing to the part where Japan is — with black tape stuck next to it on the globe.
  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    Special Report
    Investing in Japan

    Prime minister Kishida says: reassess our economy; yen falls, inflation bites; equities offer ‘new opportunity’; Bank of Japan rates scrutinised; overseas property buyers keen to enter; population strain prompts pension action; art market surges

    Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at an event hosted by the Economic Club of New York
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