Japan’s annual cat aptitude test opens its registration

Did you know that Japan has an annual test that can tell a person how well they know their feline friend? What it’s about: Known in Ja...

Woman filmed screaming at Chinese flight attendants for not speaking Japanese

A Japanese woman has received online criticism after a video of her screaming at China Airlines flight attendants went viral.  About the inc...

Ex-president of Japanese inn that rarely changed communal bathwater found dead

The former president of the Japanese inn that was found to have a communal bath with bacteria levels 3,700 times over the standard limit has...

Here are the places in Asia you need to visit in 2023, according to The New York Times 

Several Asian locations have been included in The New York Times’ list of “52 Places to Go” for 2023. On Jan. 12, the Times released its ann...

Language school in Japan decertified over Vietnamese student being chained for hours

The Nishinihon International Education Institute in the southwestern city of Fukuoka, Japan, was decertified after one of its staff chained...

Junior high school student in Japan punished with in-school suspension for plucking her eyebrows

A 14-year-old student in Fukuoka Prefecture of Kurume, Japan, was given three days of in-school suspension after she failed to comply with ...