So, the DPJ actually made it (I'm a perennial pessimist regarding that party). They seem to be fairly well prepared for a power handover...

The always interesting Jun Okumura at Globaltalk 21 has an interesting post about the (mis)use of "urban" and "rural" ...

In a true landmark study (covered by an English-language Swedish paper , Indian business newspaper , Japanese coverage ) of impeccable metho...

There's an article in Japan Times making the argument that aversion to strangers - foreigners or Japanese - is killing rural Japan . Bri...

MTC over at Shisaku has a dense, significant, yet pleasantly short post about the reality of work immigration in Japan. No real comment ab...

It's been all over the news lately that Japan's population is now stagnant and expected to shrink over the next generation or so. Th...

There's been a lot in the news lately about two population trends in Japan. One trend is the disappearing countryside and rural towns in...