Japanese employees across age groups are unwilling to use up their paid leave, even as the younger generation aspires to have a better work-life balance.
Tokyo's streets and transport system are filling up again as Japan slowly embraces a post-pandemic norm, with workers returning to offices and students back in the classroom. But the resurgence of crowds on the commuter network has also meant the return of chikan, train gropers who typically target females. In a new attempt to combat this problem, the Tokyo Metropolitan.
With temperatures across Japan soaring and the government imploring the public and businesses to limit their consumption of energy, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has signalled that nuclear power plants not used since 2011's Fukushima disaster will be brought back online. Four nuclear reactors that have already been granted approval to resume operations will be used to the fullest of their.
Despite hopes that school authorities would relax strict rules governing how students may dress and look, experts fear that deeply ingrained, conservative values will take time to overcome.