Young children gathered at a Tokyo shrine, Sunday, to pray for their calculation skills to be improved. More than a hundred children, aged from 5 to 10, knelt down in front of abacuses, known as ...
The number of people who killed themselves in Japan fell to 20,268 in 2024, marking the second consecutive year of decline and the second-lowest level after 20,169 in 2019, the health ministry ...
In fiscal 2024, the number of “children’s cafeterias” in Japan offering free or low-cost meals rose to more than 10,000, just 12 years after the first was opened in Tokyo. Despite the name ...