Viewpoints” features essays and photographs by USC Master of Public Diplomacy students who toured the Expo in Osaka, Japan.

While exploring rural Japan, I found what looked like a dream gone wrong: an abandoned Vector supercar. Whispers around the ...

It was a big week for Apple as it showed off all its upcoming software releases. While Monday’s Worldwide Developers ...

a subsidiary of PR firm Vector Group, which ranks sixth globally and first in Asia [1], today proudly announced the launch of "AvaMo," Japan's first AI-powered avatar video generation service ...

The Bangladesh embassy in Tokyo has officially launched an e-passport service for expatriates in Japan. Chief Advisor’s Principal Secretary M Siraz Uddin Miah inaugurated the service on Thursday ...

While hiking in Colombia, I ruined my passport by allowing it to get wet during a rainstorm. Years later, I made the same mistake at a rainy baseball game in Japan. This time, it was worse.

Meanwhile, troubling new data from the Foreign Ministry shows that just one in six Japanese citizens, or 17.5%, held a passport at the end of 2024.

A mere 17.5 per cent of Japanese citizens currently have a passport, compared with 25 per cent just before the pandemic, with the weak yen and concerns over safety abroad cited by many as reasons ...

Does the fact that only 17.5% of Japanese have valid passports hurt any of the posters here? Probably not. But, it's a bit of news that's still of interest to many. News doesn't need to have a ...

Only around one in six Japanese citizens hold valid passports, fresh data has shown, with the number of residents travelling abroad slowly recovering but still below pre-pandemic levels.