Japan has been busy making changes to its policies directed at foreign residents. Just last week, the Immigration Services Agency issued more stringent standards for those seeking permanent residency, the .....
When it comes to generating mountains of paper, nothing beats going through an American home-loan process, with owning a paper factory coming in a close second. And some of those .....
The last few months have been a difficult time for Japan’s foreign residents. You can barely switch on the news or scan through your YouTube stream without learning about some .....
No less an authority than Albert Einstein said, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” Maybe that’s why so many foreign residents are leaving Japan .....
It’s no secret that Japan is going through labor difficulties at a national level. From basic agriculture to Amazon deliveries, nearly every sector of the economy has had to make .....
A report by Keio University and the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper last week announced that up to 80% of junior high school students in Japan get their news from Instagram, TikTok, .....
Japan has started releasing the results of its October 2025 census, and of course the trends don’t look good. I could trot out some nine-digit numbers here, but it’s quicker .....
