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Before 1985, you could hardly find a Japanese woman in business doing anything more than “office lady” activities: tea serving, copy making, paper...

The LGBT community of Japan may go somewhat unnoticed by the general public, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been making waves in...

Whether you call it solo katsu, the super-solo life or ohitorisama (“doing things on your own”), living single is big in Japan.

It was already in 2010 when JMRN pointed out that Japan’s online retail market had increased by 17% annually since 2005, At that time, Japanese...

Japan’s cities and office buildings have been gradually squeezing smokers into smaller confines, forbidding puffing away while walking on the street and creating...

It really shouldn’t be this way, but the lives and careers of Japan’s highly educated and capable women are still dictated by how...

Researchers from South Korea and Greenpeace East Asia recently found microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands they sampled worldwide.

The so-called “seniors’” market continues to inspire innovative products and services that materialize in ways which far surpass the common theme of robotic...

Whenever you read anything about demography in Japan the greying baby boomers come up time and again as being the key distinctive cohort.

The Japanese certainly earned the image of the wealthiest nation on the planet in the past. During the so-called bubble years, which peaked...

A key Zen truth is that nothing is permanent. Therefore it follows that attachment to transient objects will bring suffering.

I recently sat down with Timothy Connor of Synnovate Consulting regarding his experiences and insights gained from his years in the Japanese consumer...