Chances are you haven¡¯t met an Ainu speaker in Japan. After all, Google¡¯s Endangered Languages Project puts the number of native speakers at fewer than five. But the Ainu people once populated a wide swath of northern Japan, stretching from Tohoku to Hokkaido, the ...
In 2009, UNESCO in its ¡°Atlas of the World¡¯s Languages in Danger¡± designated the Ainu language as being critically endangered. As the most dire of the five categories ¡ª only extinct is worse ¡ª used in the report, it highlighted the precarious state that ...
The filing of tax returns will start next month in Japan, and as many readers are aware, Japan applies residence-based taxation, which basically means anyone residing and earning in Japan needs to file a tax return in Japan. On the other hand, the United ...
The Dokuritsu Shojindan Foundation is holding its annual sho (Japanese calligraphy) exhibition, the 70th Dokuritsu Sho Exhibition, in the National Art Center, Tokyo in Minato Ward this month to celebrate the new year. The spacious venue is filled with thousands of expressive works consisting ...
The ISPS Handa-Championship, a golf tournament sponsored by the International Sports Promotion Society (ISPS), will be held next spring as the first DP World Tour event in Japan. With DP World, a multinational logistics company based in Dubai, as the new title sponsor, the ...
The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2021 is taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday under the auspices of the Japanese government. The summit builds on more than 10 years of international focus on nutrition that kicked off in 2010 with the launch of ...
The world is facing a new nutrition reality where persistent undernutrition and escalating overnutrition coexist even within individual populations. This double burden of malnutrition imposes a set of new challenges for policy and program development. With less than five years left to achieve the ...
Global leaders have committed to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030 as part of the United Nations¡¯ sustainable development goals (SDGs), but malnutrition still remains the biggest challenge in the world. Ahead of Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2021 on Tuesday and Wednesday, ...
Washoku, Â鶹´«Ã½ traditional dietary culture, was added to UNESCO¡¯s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2013. Washoku has since grown rapidly into an international trend, and extensive research has been conducted into its health benefits. The National Cancer Center Japan defines it as the ¡°Japanese dietary ...
Endo Manufacturing forges ahead in Â鶹´«Ã½ golf world and beyond
Masaki Sukegawa has been crafting golf clubs for more than 18 years in his workshop at Endo Manufacturing Co. It¡¯s his job to turn lumps of metal into master models for clubheads used by some of the world¡¯s top professional golfers, as well as ...
Tsubame-Sanjo, which is centered on the cities of Tsubame and Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture, is a fertile, rice-producing region on the Sea of Japan coast. But the area is also well known as a metalworking powerhouse that has carried on for over 400 years ...
10th Ryugaku Awards highlight nation¡¯s top Japanese schools
On Sept. 24, the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education hosted its annual Japan Ryugaku Awards ceremony for Japanese-language schools. This year¡¯s ceremony marked the 10th iteration of the awards, which were launched in 2012 to lure students back after the Great East ...
