It’s tsukimi burger time once again in Japan, a decades-old junk food option that turns out to be essential to Japan’s long-term survival.

A key element of Japan’s rich and enduring culture is in danger of being stripped away, thanks in part to weightlifters using cell phones.

Japan’s new extreme-right political parties are not ashamed to be anti-immigrant, but the real harm these groups cause is against the nation’s citizens.

If foreign residents in Japan want to be treated more like insiders, they need to make that desire clear.

#Japan, despite its official pacifist stance, can learn much from the urgency of recent military conflicts.

Dealing with that foreign language that you keep hearing in #Japan: #English.

The popular auction site Mercari is asking me lots of probing questions. Is it, perchance, a clandestine branch of the Japanese government?

Japan, it turns out, has lots of paperwork. Citizens are somehow able to jet right past the formalities, be they printed forms in...

Japan imposes a six-month waiting period on foreign resident bank accounts. Nihon Plus You’s new white paper explains the reasons why...

If you have spent any length of time in Japan, you have encountered name stamps, those handheld seals used to mark documents. Embossing a...

Japan’s identity as a culture and a society is unique in this world, thanks in part to its remote island location. When combined with the...

Cheese tastes great in a wide variety of foods. But did you know it also works with immigration policies? Well, it does, thanks to that m...

On November 12, 2023, the Deep in Japan podcast released its two-hour interview with Tim Odagiri, Director of Nihon Plus You.

A few weeks ago, I had a chance to visit Hiroshima, my first trip to that sprawling port city in Western Japan. As I gazed at a cloudbank...

On October 25, 2023, Maya Matsuoka and Tim Sullivan from Japan Expert Insights interviewed Nihon Plus You’s director, Tim Odagiri, about...

Someone asked me a few days ago what my secret is for learning Japanese. Obviously, this conversation took place in English. If we had be...

This week, the entertainment behemoth Johnny and Associates will change its name to “Smile-Up.” If you haven’t been following the news, t...

When you move to Japan, one of the first things you realize is how woefully unprepared you are for the experience. Naturally, there’s the...

The nations of the world recently have been behaving like a bunch of cranky kids, refusing to play well together despite having ample toy...

Anyone who cares about Japan and its people knows that it is going through some demographic turbulence right now. A large baby-boom popul...