Society
Japan's care insurance is shrinking, and self-pay services are filling the gap
A government push to certify housework support workers has care managers asking whether growth strategy is quietly replacing a system built to socialize care.
Mochizuki book pulled after errors; author says lawyers are preparing a statement
Asahi Shimbun Publishing halted sales of the lawmaker-journalist's dialogue book on Nov. 1, after a high-school reporter she wrote about was misdescribed.
Magnitude 5.7 quake shakes western Aichi at intensity 5-upper; no tsunami
The quake, centered in western Shizuoka at a depth of about 40 km, was felt in Shiga, southern Kyoto and Osaka, and as far as Tokyo and Saitama.
Tohoku Shinkansen halted between Tokyo and Morioka after overhead-wire fault
JR East says a foreign object was found on the overhead wires between Koriyama and Fukushima, and there is no estimate for when trains will run again.
Ito Awa, writer and Senegal-Japan 'half,' on marriage, a father reconciled and a Japan that asks her to explain herself
In the first of a two-part conversation with critic Watanabe Yuma, the 30-year-old essayist discusses her new book, a long estrangement that ended, and why she wants readers to know that quiet, dark 'halves' exist too.
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A Fukuoka mother built a care service for her son's severe behavioral disability, one helper at a time
Wheel-detachment crashes spike as drivers swap to winter tires, and Japan's rules lag the tech
Japan's health ministry moves to pay rural home-care visits for the drive, not the visit
Bear spotted eating persimmons in suburban Hachioji, 200 meters from site of September cull
A House Burned to the Ground, a Family Unharmed — and One Body No One Can Name
Kerosene spills into Hokkaido river from shinkansen tunnel site
Kuni Kuniaki, the emperor emeritus's cousin who left the imperial family in 1947, dies at 97
Japan Convenes New Expert Panel on Shrinking Population as Birthrate Keeps Falling
Sapporo subway platform work stalls behind a wall twice as thick as the plans showed
