Lats week groups of up to 200 right-wingers have been gathering in the Korean area, spouting hate slogans enough to incense any right-minded person to want to slap their faces.

Now that the rise in Consumption Tax is all but assured, we think there are some very interesting changes in store for how the Japanese Government and Japanese companies think about making money.

After the Tokyo High Court finally agreed to a retrial after new DNA evidence, Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepalese who has been in prison on and off since 1997, has been released.

Those of us who are resident foreigners in Japan will have some big changes coming up on July 9th.

Negative reporting certainly took its toll on the "gaijin" population in Japan.

Denying foreigners the right to vote in local elections -- child abduction in divorces -- Toyota's PR crisis -- proposed ban on Bluefin tuna

Looming insurance bills are making some green at the gills.

How successful is the working holiday visa program?

Tokyo's expat watering holes are drying up as their customers leave town.