TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Teenagers are notoriously difficult to understand, but the lives of Japanese parents are about to get easier thanks to recently published dictionaries dedicated to deciphering ...

Tourists, and locals who still need the help — like me. I’ve lived in the country for the last three and a half years, and while I can order a drink in a restaurant and catch trains on time, I’m often ...

In September 2010, in the sea off the Senkaku Islands, the Japanese Coast Guard arrested the captain of a Chinese trawler that rammed into their patrol ships. China claimed that the islands are its ...

Journalist Yumi Araki returns to Japan as it enters a new era. She explores the issues that have both galvanized and polarised the nation and meets the people at the forefront of great change.