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The ashes of the cremated can sometimes have valuable metals like gold and palladium from dental fillings, or titanium from bone implants Many Japanese cities are selling metals taken from the ...

In Japan, cremation ceremonies for people often involve collecting the bone pieces that remain to be kept with the ashes, and there is demand for the same custom to be possible for pet cremations.

The number of foreign residents in Japan is booming. The Internal Affairs Ministry says the figure reached 2.49 million in 2018. But a new survey finds that only one in five Japanese people have ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

The Japanese education system has often been criticized for heavily valuing scores and rote memorization. Nonetheless, Japanese students have continuously scored above the worldwide average in the ...

They have become pampered family members in South Korea, which has the world’s lowest birthrate and where much of the ...

These universities in Japan have been numerically ranked based on their positions in the overall Best Global Universities rankings. Schools were evaluated based on their research performance and ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

Japan has - for the first time - issued a warning about an increased risk of a "major earthquake" striking in the near future. The advisory was issued on Thursday night local time, telling people ...