Restaurant etiquette differs from country to country, and what one might consider the norm in America can actually be quite offensive in Japan.

But Sasaki had arrived just as long-entrenched Japanese training norms were starting to give way to less dogmatic American ...

Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. A long-standing ...

A public elementary school in rural Japan has done away with homework — and after one year, some students say they are more motivated to learn. The principal of Yamagata Prefecture's Nisshin ...