In modern-day Japan, you'll find a preponderance of adorable cat cafes, Hello Kitty merchandise, and maneki-neko statues beckoning to customers from inside their shop windows. It probably comes as ...
A Japanese woman died last year of a tick-borne disease after being bitten by a stray cat, Japan's health ministry says, in what could be the first such mammal-to-human transmission. The unnamed ...
Japan has restrictive immigration laws and accepts few workers from other countries. But new rules could allow blue-collar workers in the construction, farming and healthcare sectors to work there.