After nearly three years of isolation, many Japanese who live from tourism are now hoping for a return to normality. DW meets a bicycle tour operator in Tokyo.
More than a decade after the second-worst nuclear disaster in history, engineers want to construct a huge water-filled tank around one of the damaged reactors and carry out underwater dismantling work.
The Japanese film industry is following in the footsteps of the #MeToo campaign in other parts of the world, although some fear it will be impossible to entirely stamp out abuse that has become commonplace.
The Japanese film industry is following in the footsteps of the #MeToo campaign in other parts of the world, although some fear it will be impossible to entirely stamp out abuse that has become commonplace.
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.