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                • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
                  Leo Lewis
                  Everyone loves a bit of corporate ‘malfeasatainment’

                  Could the downfall of a second-hand car dealer prove restorative for Japan’s psyche?

                  Maria Hergueta illustration of oversized fingers pointing at a mechanic who is standing beside a car
                • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
                  Sexual misconduct allegations
                  Japanese boy band abuse scandal rocks entertainment industry

                  Some of country’s largest businesses and media groups try to distance themselves from troubled talent agency

                  Noriyuki Higashiyama, left, and Julie Fujishima
                • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
                  Japanese business & finance
                  Japanese department store workers to stage first strike since 1950s

                  Seibu’s flagship store in Tokyo to close for one day in protest at planned sale to US investment fund

                  Pedestrians walk past a Seibu department store in Tokyo, Japan
                • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
                  Leo Lewis
                  Japan’s high standards of service face ‘shrinkflation’

                  Waiting for pancakes in a Yokohama fast food outlet serves up a reminder of the labour shortage crisis

                  Maria Hergueta illustration of a long queue of people waiting to order fast food.
                • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
                  Global trade
                  US-Japan whaling spat threatens Indo-Pacific trade deal

                  Dispute between allies erupts just a week before Joe Biden hosts Japanese leader at Camp David

                  A captured Minke whale is lifted by a crane at a port in Kushiro, Hokkaido
                • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
                  Leo Lewis
                  Japan’s elderly need protection from scammers — but not like this

                  Categorising over-65s as incompetent in order to stop ATM fraud is a recipe for disaster

                  Maria Hergueta illustration of a person standing in front of two huge grey hands - one held up to stop him and the other holding a credit card
                • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
                  Japanese business & finance
                  Japanese banks accused of ‘gender-washing’ over women in management

                  Wage gap persists as inconsistent definitions for senior roles inflate female representation

                  A woman cycles past signage for Japanese banks
                • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
                  Cash is no longer king in Japan as use of coins drops sharply

                  Turnround suggests nation’s long love affair with piggy banks is coming to an end

                  Photo of ¥500 coins
                • Friday, 16 June, 2023
                  Japan raises age of sexual consent from 13 to 16

                  Reform also broadens definition of rape following longstanding criticism of penal code

                  A woman holding a placard on which is written ‘No Means No’
                • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
                  Leo Lewis
                  J-pop abuse scandal exposes broader crisis of governance

                  End of talent agency omertà shows how corporate relationships protected misuse of power

                  Illustration of a singer at a microphone, with curtains on either side that also look like hands, which are wrapping round the singer
                • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
                  Leo Lewis
                  The disguised blessings of Japan’s demographic decline

                  Business culture and employment prospects may undergo profound and beneficial change as the population shrinks

                  Maria Hergueta illustration of an employee staring at a computer screen surrounded by Post-it notes, while another rises from his chair to follow notes that have turned into butterflies
                • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
                  Sahoko Kaji
                  Japan must lose its Showa mentality

                  The attitude of my postwar cohort has gripped the country for too long

                  Commuters outside Tokyo station
                • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
                  News in-depthNikkei Asia
                  Japan readies ‘last hope’ measures to stop falling births

                  Experts say next 10 years critical as prime minister eyes ‘children first’ society

                  Sleeping baby
                • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  Covid fears kill Japan’s travel bug

                  Taboos around spreading coronavirus and weak yen keep travellers home and industry ailing

                  People walk through Dotonbori district in Osaka in December
                • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
                  Leo Lewis
                  Death and Japan’s nuclear shelter salesman

                  Khrushchev once speculated that the survivors of the apocalypse would envy the dead. I agree

                  Illustration of two people sat inside a nuclear shelter, inside of which is a clock approaching midnight
                • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
                  Leo Lewis
                  Japan’s reckoning with religious threats, real and imagined

                  Abe’s murder has led to a crackdown on the Unification Church — and on parents frightening children with hellfire

                  Maria Hergueta illustration of a Japanese woman dressed in gentle pink kimono standing at the entrance of a Japanese temple that is coloured red. The right pillar of the temple is cracked. There is a tree with a green canopy on each side of the temple entrance
                • Monday, 2 January, 2023
                  Japan to offer families ¥1mn per child to leave Tokyo

                  Government attempts to reverse decades of demographic decline away from the big cities

                  A mother and her baby look at flowering cherry blossoms at the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo
                • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
                  Japan seeks wealthier western tourists to address China deficit

                  Arrivals more than doubled month on month in October but Chinese tourists stayed away

                  A Chinese tourist tries on a watch in the Ginza district of Tokyo in a pre-pandemic visit
                • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
                  Leo Lewis
                  ‘Degrowth’ — Marxism is back for the modern age

                  A Japanese philosophy professor has scored an unlikely hit with a book denouncing unbridled consumption

                  Illustration of a white pet mouse sleeping in an exercise wheel
                • Saturday, 29 October, 2022
                  Leo Lewis
                  Japan’s empty villages are a warning for China

                  Beijing should take note of the risks posed by a property bubble and demographic changes

                  Maria Hergueta illustration of empty houses with a line descending through them to show prices falling
                • Monday, 17 October, 2022
                  Japanese politics & policy
                  Kishida orders probe of Moonies after outcry over Japan political ties

                  Former leader Shinzo Abe’s assassination highlighted connections with Unification Church

                  Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister
                • Monday, 17 October, 2022
                  Japanese economy
                  Japan hopes foreign tourist surge will offer upside to weak yen

                  End of Covid-19 travel curbs raises hopes of $35bn economic boost from international visitors

                  Foreign tourists at Tokyo’s Asakusa entertainment district
                • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
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                  Office slackers: the truth about doing nothing at work

                  Every workplace has them. Here’s why

                • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
                  Shinzo Abe
                  Protesters march on Japan’s parliament to criticise Abe state funeral

                  World leaders gather to bid farewell to divisive leader who introduced Abenomics

                  A protester holds a sign opposing the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a protest in Tokyo on Tuesday
                • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
                  Leo Lewis
                  Pandemic fails to shift Japan’s attitude to employee wellbeing

                  Stance on remote work can be viewed as resistance to broader change

                  Office workers wearing face masks walk towards the train station in Shibuya, Tokyo
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