Japan on April 1 enacted a law to prevent loneliness and isolation, problems that affect an estimated 39 percent of the population. The law positions “loneliness and isolation” as “an issue ...

Japan faces the constant risk of natural calamities striking anywhere at any time. To save as many lives as possible, it is ...

For high school - an essay analyzing multiple perspectives of the pervasive historical narrative of isolation and providing a conclusion with their opinion, “Was Tokugawa Japan a ‘closed country’?” ...

The next day, the road became passable and the isolation ended ... Noto Peninsula quake since January 3 at the request of the Japan International Agency for Disaster Countermeasures, an ...

The arrival of the Black Ships shattered Japan’s isolation and ended the age of the samurai. A bloodless revolution with ...

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan has more than 400 small, inhabited islands that are uniquely exposed to the risks of natural ...

Disillusioned by work and tired of life, Seiji Yoshida withdrew from the world for seven years, but now he's taking part in a play about the experiences of Japan's "hikikomori", or social recluses.