On a humid June morning in Tottori Prefecture in western Japan, hundreds of would-be teachers filed into exam halls to ...

Finding love in rural Japan is not impossible. Despite living in one of the country’s least populated prefectures, more than one of my local friends has gotten married after meeting someone through ...

This video dives into the demanding world of professional sheep shearing through firsthand experience. It exposes the ...

In Tokyo, Levi Pells, 32, was managing a small team and earning more than he ever imagined. He noticed his happiness depended on his quarterly performance.

Members of a university kanto club perform in Akita Prefecture, Japan. Tradition and religion dictate that only men are allowed to be sashite or pole carriers. Anthony Kuhn is NPR's correspondent ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

A new report by the United Nations Development Program is urging governments to focus more on how artificial intelligence ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

The number of foreigners resident in Japan who moved to the Tokyo metropolitan area in 2024 outnumbered those leaving by over 16,000, setting a record-high margin, government data showed Saturday, ...

New Delhi: Demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA, has dropped sharply since June, with official data showing that the number of people seeking ...