Tokyo 2020 has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with L’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to encourage the use of French during next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. The ...

February 9 - Japan's former Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe was today elected the new Governor of Tokyo, promising to make the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics "a success". The 65-year-old, a close ally ...

05.09.2018, Tokyo, Japan: The logo for the Summer Olympics Tokyo 2020 at Seaside Park Hockey Stadium. Almost two years before the next matches, the organisers presented the state of preparations for ...

Japanese language schools are meeting with renewed scrutiny as Japan braces for an influx of foreign workers under new immigration rules set to go into effect in April. In a candid interview, a ...

Over nearly four decades, Kazuo and Hiroko Omori have spread and nurtured the seeds of grassroots exchanges around the globe, ...

The Japanese, like Poles, are romantics who have a deep passion for Chopin, and this affinity is what draws them to the ...

Minoru Hatanaka, operator of a conveyor-belt sushi chain, knew zilch about how to run a Japanese language school.

Discover why Chef Akane Eno, head of Ichigo Ichie, prefers the rich vocabulary of Japanese poetry and how it inspires her ...

Every time I am back in Japan, I usually find myself wandering the aisles of Kinokuniya bookshop in Osaka, buying a few Japanese paperbacks on what might seem like random subjects. Collectively, these ...