Under the current system, rubbish collectors place yellow “violation stickers” on bin bags that don’t have properly ...

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa -- Over 80% of university students who responded to this east Japan city's happiness survey indicated that ...

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Near the other end of the Japanese archipelago, 1,500 kilometers to the southwest, is another. In Kikuyo, just outside the city of Kumamoto in Kyushu, mass production is soon set to begin at a $7 ...

While some cities in Japan, including Kyoto and Sasebo in the Nagasaki Prefecture, conduct inspections of rubbish bags and disclose the names of offending businesses, Fukushima is the first to do ...