Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

The average salary in Tokyo is ¥6.12 million. Does that ring true for you? Where do you fit in Japan's thriving capital?

There are so many writers in New York, it can be a bit of a struggle to carve out space, whereas there aren't that many writers writing in English who are living in rural Japan. So without really ...

The average salary in Japan is ¥4.60 million per year ... Keep in mind that workers in major cities like Tokyo typically earn more than those in rural areas, reflecting the higher cost of living in ...

Nguyen Thi An Xuan, 21, is from Vietnam I have seen someone say on the internet in Vietnam before I came to Japan: “Japanese people have no heart.” But after living in Japan for a year and ...

Proponents of a uniform national minimum wage emphasize that the cost of living is about the same in urban and rural areas ... to a report compiled by the Japan Research Institute of Labor ...

The world she created there was like getting out of a time capsule back 100 years,” said one photographer who documented ...

Being here is exciting and overwhelming, but this isn’t why I came to Japan. Far away from the crowded ... many people have had to leave Hagi and other rural communities in recent years ...