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April 13, 2022 Yuka Yoshida Why was Shirakawa-go, a World Heritage Site, chosen as one of the 100 Most Sustainable Tourist Destinations...

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

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...

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...

July 31, 2020 NATSUHA AKIYAMA To counter COVID-19, Fujitsu group, a Japanese information and communication technology giant, has started...

July 31, 2020 Nao Kazuma In Japan, due to the aging population and the increase in single-person households, the number of people who...

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

Sae Kanazawa February 27, 2019 In Japan, poverty level of single-mother family is one of the serious social problems. There are about 52...

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...

Megumi Kitazawa July 26, 2018 At the Closing ceremony of the  Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared as Super...

Aya Uchiyama July 26, 2018 How we Japan have keep “monozukuri” in industries As I studied abroad in Boston, I realized that “Made in...

July 26, 2018 Akari Aoki “About one out of thirteen Japanese is sexual minority.” That fact became clear by a survey of a major...