Right-wing populists, viral social media posts, and deep-seated economic anxieties have amplified the belief that foreigners ...

Japan’s foreign resident population stood at about 3.7 million at the end of last year, up 11 per cent from the previous year ...

TOKYO -- A Nikkei survey found that a majority of economists believe the increase in the number of foreign residents in Japan ...

The bigger question is not whether Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will resign after his coalition lost an important election, ...

Japan's population experienced a significant decline in 2024, dropping by over 900,000, marking the largest decrease since ...

Hattori responded to a question regarding the political rise of the Sanseito party, which has called for a reassessment of ...

The backdrop to this intensified political rhetoric is Japan's growing foreign resident population, which reached about 3.77 million at the end of last year -- a record high accounting for 3% of ...

Workers living in Japan as of Jan. 1 are subject to resident tax for that year. However, it is typically paid in monthly installments from June of the following year and the time lag contributes ...

As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise both in terms of quantity and diversity, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of ...

Japan has decided to overhaul its foreign trainee program due to criticisms of exploiting cheap labor, replacing it with a new system that aims protect the rights of trainees.

Growth and foreign fervour for yield give Japan fiscal wiggle room By Rae Wee and Vidya Ranganathan July 21, 20252:59 PM PDTUpdated July 21, 2025 ...

Former Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida clinched a victory in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election on Wednesday, virtually ensuring that he replaces Yoshihide Suga as ...