Many of the world’s thousands of languages are on the brink of extinction.

The skulls of three indigenous Ainu people have been returned to their community by a university. The remains, which have been held at the University of Edinburgh’s Anatomical Museum for more than 100 ...

Three skulls from Japan that were given to Edinburgh University in 1913 have been returned to the indigenous community where ...

In Japan, some tour buses have been repurposed as hearses, providing “compassionate” funeral services that enable families to visit meaningful places with their deceased loved ones.

Japanese adults are exercising less, a recent survey by the Sasakawa Sports Foundation, a think tank in Tokyo, showed. The 2024 survey found that 69.8% of respondents said they engaged in some ...

Major Japanese travel agency JTB says that fewer people in the country are likely to take trips over the upcoming spring holiday period. The downbeat prediction comes as soaring prices prompt many ...

It’s that we’re too loud. “Japanese people don’t speak very loudly,” she says. The language is flat, without the high and low exclamations of a language like Italian. “We are not used ...

Authorities in Japan’s Nagano prefecture are on high alert after a bear attacked three people in Iyama, leaving two seriously injured. The animal entered residential properties, broke through ...

A Japanese research team led by Tohoku University ... active among those conceived during the colder months and that such people tended to have lower body mass index scores and less visceral ...

A 27-year-old Japanese man has trended on social media ... He hates birthdays or holidays because people would greet him using the word happy, such as Happy Birthday and Happy Valentine’s ...

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning ... 30cm or deeper will cover roughly 444 square miles. Almost 300,000 people would be killed - including 215,000 killed by tsunami waves ...

The Japanese coast guard said six people were on board what the Japanese call “a doctor helicopter” when the crash occurred on Sunday. The aircraft had been travelling to a hospital in Fukuoka ...