Last October, the government announced it would abolish the current health insurance card and integrate the function with the My Number Card in fall 2024. This development led to a surge of new ...

Shirtless fishermen have become the latest hot item driving the trading card-collecting scene in Japan. Hitomi Nakayama, who lives in Aomori, has now collected more than 50 of these trading cards ...

Fraudulent credit card purchases are on the rise in Japan, hitting a record level of some 540 million yen ($3.5 million) in 2023. What I learned about by nearly falling victim to the unauthorized ...