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Poor Support Has Led 40% of Afghan Evacuees To Leave Japan

September 20, 2022 by Japan Informer

Approximately 40 percent of the 169 Afghan evacuees who came to Japan after the Taliban regained control in August last year have abandoned the country, citing pressure and a lack of help from the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Although Japan has given refugee status to 98 persons, 58 of the possible Taliban victims returned to Afghanistan. There were seven evacuees who went to … [Read more...] about Poor Support Has Led 40% of Afghan Evacuees To Leave Japan

Japan To Accept Afghan Evacuees Despite The Border Restrictions

December 9, 2021 by Japan Informer

Afghan personnel who worked at Japanese organizations that wish to be evacuated from Afghanistan will receive a unique authorization to travel into Japan with no COVID-19 border restrictions, officials announced on Wednesday. The decision, which applies to the staff of the now-closed Japanese Embassy located in Kabul and employees at the Japan International Cooperation Agency … [Read more...] about Japan To Accept Afghan Evacuees Despite The Border Restrictions

Taliban Wants Japan To Re-Open The Embassy In Afghanistan

November 26, 2021 by Japan Informer

A deputy prime minister from the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan requested Japan's ambassador to open the embassy of Japan in Kabul after a meeting in the capital city of the nation on Wednesday. It was requested during the time that Abdul Ghani Baradar met with Ambassador Takashi Okada. Japan temporarily shut down its embassy in Kabul in August. 15th when the … [Read more...] about Taliban Wants Japan To Re-Open The Embassy In Afghanistan

Does the experience of living in Japan make you a better person? The good, bad and ugly

We asked expats living in Japan if they thought that simply living here has made them a better person. Find out the results: the good, the bad and the ugly!We all know that living abroad gives you an opportunity to have a greater understanding of other cultures. If you’ve ever lived somewhere other than your […]

Japan Made All Of The Medals For The 2021 Tokyo Olympics out of Discarded smartphones and laptops

JAPAN| According to the Official Tokyo Olympics website A Tokyo 2020 medal project was conducted to collect small electronic devices such as broken phones all over japan to environment-friendly Olympics. This is also the first time ever in the history of the Olympic Games and Paralympics to have included citizens in the medal manufacturing process. […]

WHY Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women ?

Every aging society faces distinct challenges. But Japan, with the world’s oldest population (27.3 percent of its citizens are 65 or older, almost twice the share in the U.S.), has been dealing with one it didn’t foresee: senior crime. Complaints and arrests involving elderly people, and women in particular, are taking place at rates above […]

Toshiba’s New Test Can Detect 13 Cancer Types with 99% Accuracy from a Single Drop of Blood

TOKYO| Toshiba Corporation has developed a simple, highly accurate cancer detection technology that utilizes microRNA in blood. With a unique electrochemical microRNA detection technology, the company confirmed to comprehensively distinguish between healthy individuals and patients with 13 cancer types, such as pancreatic cancer and breast cancer, within two hours and with 99% accuracy at the […]

Japanese Education Board Finally Bans Schools From Checking Student’s Underwear Color

An educational board from Japan has gotten rid of a gruesome procedure where school staff members inspected the color of the student’s underwear. School staff in Japan are no longer permitted to inspect the color of kids’ underwear to ensure they’re adhering to the white-only dress code. Teachers have been reported to have targeted female […]

Meisa Kuroki – A Japanese Celebrity with Brazilian Roots

Satsuki Shimabukuro, better known by her stage name Meisa Kuroki, is a Japanese actress, model, and singer of Brazilian and Japanese heritage. Her father is of mixed race, born to a Brazilian mother and a Japanese father. With her striking looks and charismatic personality, Kuroki has made a name for herself in the Japanese and […]

Japanese Start Embracing CBD Despite Social Stigma And Taboo

Japan is hell for stoners; with its zero-tolerance cannabis laws, deep social stigma, and efforts to tighten consumption rules, consuming Marijuana openly is impossible. It was hard to believe that it happened when you saw Ai Takahashi’s friends twerk, body-roll, and light up to “Young, Wild & Free” in a small club in Tokyo. They […]

10 Odd Facts About The Yakuza

The yakuza are Japan’s organized crime syndicates, like the triads in other parts of Asia or the mafia in the West. Yet the operations and social roles of the yakuza are very different to other criminal organizations. In fact, the yakuza are almost mainstream. They have office buildings and their gossip features in Japanese popular […]

JAPAN CREATE THE INTELLIGENCE TOILET, WHICH CAN SCAN FOR HUMAN DISEASE (VIDEO)

Japanese company has developed a new type of toilet that called Flowsky which will act as a doctor at your home with technology which can measure your urine indicates that you are at risk for health. Toilet equipped with technology to measure health through urination is made by the original equipment toilet manufacturer of the […]

Japan Made a Live-Action ‘Joker’ Adult Parody

A live-motion adult parody of the hit film “Joker” is popping out next month starring one of the Japanese person video industry’s most famous actresses, Yui Hatano (NSFW). The movie, titled “A Clown Woman Hatano Yui,” become directed with the aid of Ichikan Abashiri under the Bermuda/Mousouzoku label.The 31-year-antique Japanese ponr actress has already appeared […]