Foreign residents in Japan tend to have lower Japanese language proficiency if they live in towns and villages with smaller populations, a government survey found. Many foreigners in such rural ...

Seven months after arriving in Japan from Nepal, 19-year-old Diyali Yamuna can ace a job interview in Japanese. But in more than a third of Japan's municipalities, a school like hers does not exist at ...

Japan is moving forward with plans to establish more formal guidelines for foreign nationals seeking permanent residency in ...

Japan is experiencing historically high numbers of foreigners. Its population is shrinking, and its workforce is ageing, driving foreign labour to historic levels. In addition, the number of ...

NAGOYA -- "Kazu Languages," 26, posts videos on social media of exchanges in which he surprises foreigners by speaking to ...