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A My Number card reader at a pediatric clinic in Tokyo. While the government will stop issuing new health insurance cards on Monday, most people will remain unaffected by the move in the short term as existing health insurance cards can still be used for another year.

JAPAN / Explainer

Dec 1, 2024

Don’t worry, you can still use your Japan health insurance card — for now

By Tomoko Otake

While the government will stop issuing new health insurance cards on Monday, there is a one-year grace period for their integration with My Number cards.

One shortcoming of the Freelance Act — a new law designed to improve the working conditions of freelancers — is that freelancers and clients don't know much about it.

JAPAN / Explainer

Oct 31, 2024

What is the Freelance Act, Japan’s first-ever law to help freelancers?

By Himari Semans

The law introduces new measures to help self-employed workers. However, some shortcomings remain, experts say.

Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.

JAPAN / Explainer

Aug 9, 2024

Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?

By Francis Tang and Gabriele Ninivaggi

How serious is the situation, and what should people do in the days to come? Here’s what you need to know.

PFAS does not break down easily and remains in the body and the environment for a number of years, and is thus called “forever chemicals.”

JAPAN / Explainer

Mar 4, 2024

Japan’s food safety panel drafts intake limit for 'forever chemicals'

By Tomoko Otake

The report spells out the “tolerable daily intake” of PFAS through food for the first time. Here's what you need to know.

JAPAN / Explainer

Jan 31, 2024

Quake-hit Noto faces a long road to recovery. Here's how you can help.

By Kanako Takahara

After initially asking people to refrain from coming as volunteers, municipalities in Ishikawa are now open to outside help.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is questioned about fundraising parties by reporters in Tokyo on Wednesday.

JAPAN / Explainer

Dec 7, 2023

Understanding the LDP political funding scandal and its implications

By Kanako Takahara

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his ruling LDP are in hot water over suspicions that party factions underreported funds for years.

JAPAN / Explainer

Nov 24, 2023

Why is Fumio Kishida called 'the four-eyed tax-hiker'?

By Gabriele Ninivaggi

The prime minister hasn’t actually raised taxes for the public at large since he took office over two years ago — at least, not yet.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The sun shines from behind a waving Philippine flag at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.

Eighty years after the Battle of Manila, old foes forge new ties

By Anton L. Delgado

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