November 14, 2024 Chisato Nakatsugawa and Sora Matsuo The frequency of seeing kale in Japan is perhaps less than in other countries. If...

April 21, 2022 Ayaka Shoji There are 1.4 million tons of wasted clothes in Japan. Recently, there has been a boom in used clothing in...

April 21, 2022 Yuna Inoue In Japan, the birth rate has been decreasing and depopulation is progressing. To solve this problem, a lot of...

April 8, 2022 Minami Takamatsu Japanese Beech, a indigenous tree in Niigata Prefecture has created a new market in the traditional...

April 20, 2022 Miyu Iwamoto There is one unique activity in Japan called “a village with 700 citizens turns into one hotel.” In Kosuge...

October 11th, 2021 Arisa Nokuo and Rena Katsumata Through the interview with Mr. Toda, who is engaging in building a risk management...

July 7, 2021 Misato Sasaki and Miyabi Oyamada “Women are at the top of the list of diversity in Japan, but it feels strange,” says...

June 10, 2021 Arisa Nokuo & Rena Katsumata Do you know what the word “BCP” means? It stands for Business Continuity Plan, meaning to...

During the Meiji era [1968-1912] in Japan, masks were made out of wire mesh as the core and used cloth as the filter. At that time, the...

January 14, 2021 AKARI ODAGIRI In Japan, overcrowding in cities and rural depopulation are serious long term social problems. These...

Due to the spread of COVID-19, many university students have become dissatisfied with two issues: The prohibition of face-to-face classes...

October , 2020 Nao Kazuma The spread of COVID-19 has had a major impact on the demand for tourism worldwide. On July 22nd, the Japanese...

“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” Helen Keller wrote it on her book published in 1902. Because of the...

Naito, an amusement machine company, has begun to manufacture and sell the face guards for newborn babies to prevent the spread of...

August 1, 2020 Ayano Hata With the spread of new coronavirus, the Toyota Corp, the biggest automarker,  is providing medical support to...

Saori Kikutani February 27, 2019 Do you think how many animals are euthanized per year in Japan? Unfortunately, euthanasia is the only...

Palette Editorial Team December 23, 2018 Palette editors overview the basic facts and figures about Japanese women in workforce....

Yoshika Maeshiro July 26, 2018 The Present Situation About Japanese Nursery Schools Now Japanese government promotes women empowerment to...

July 26, 2018 Misa Ogura Currently in Japan, local revitalization is a buzz word. Yokosuka city is not an exception. Yokosuka city is...

July 20, 2017 Yui Kubota, Yoshika Maeshiro, Misa Ogura, Megumi Kitazawa On May 25 in 2017, special lecture named "Women and Technology"...