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Japan Today Spotlight — 67 episodes
Why 1 in 3 unmarried young Japanese don’t plan to marry
Why are foreign business owners leaving Japan?
Are you prepared for a disaster in Japan?
Putin’s message to Japan: The disputed islands visit
Why Japan has only 2 'baby hatches'
Why Japan’s ‘izakaya’ are disappearing
Japan wants AI. Many people aren’t convinced.
Mosque under fire: Japan’s Muslims — welcome or wanted?
Why Japanese fans clean up stadiums — and why it sparked debate
Why Japan struggles with mental health
Mount Fuji has a people problem
Japan’s new criminal underworld
Japan’s ‘hikikomori’ shut-ins are getting older — and the clock is ticking
Why Japan ranks last in G7 gender equality
Why tattoos are still taboo in Japan
Japan just started selling weapons. Here’s why that’s a big deal
Japan prefecture will pay residents to report illegal foreign workers
Inside Japan’s ‘Toyoko Kids’ in Kabukicho
New divorce and child custody rules in Japan
Why Japan has almost no gun crime
Can foreigners own land in Japan?
Japan’s bicycle crackdown
Japan’s new idol culture trend
Japan’s hidden homelessness
Japan under pressure as Takaichi meets Trump
What’s wrong with Japan’s police?
Can you carry a knife in Japan?
Iran conflict: Japan exposed?
Japan’s military is short on recruits
The Senkakus: Little islands, big tensions
How Japan chooses its prime minister
The death penalty in Japan
Japan and nuclear weapons: A line it hasn’t crossed — yet
Inside Japan's troubled classrooms
New rules for foreigners in Japan
Can Japan power its AI future?
Japan Today Spotlight: The stories that defined Japan in 2025
Japan’s rising cost of living
‘Akiya’: Japan’s hottest property boom
How scammers target you in Japan
Japan–China standoff over Taiwan
Running on empty
Japan’s vanishing countryside
Japan’s NHK fee
Sanae Takaichi meets Donald Trump: Flattery or strategy?
Japan’s ‘foreigner problem’: Kimi Onoda and the politics of coexistence
Trial of Shinzo Abe’s assassin: The fallout Japan still faces
Japan’s marijuana paradox: Legal CBD, harsh laws, big arrests
Drunk pilots at JAL: Scandals Japan can’t ignore
Why stalking cases in Japan keep ending in tragedy
Why nuisance YouTubers are causing outrage in Japan
Why Japan’s ‘lost generation’ is still losing
Why bear attacks are surging in Japan
Why so many people go missing in Japan
Japan’s hostage justice: Guilty until proven innocent
Scrolling for truth: News for the swipe generation
80 years after the Pacific War: Japan’s reckoning with history
Why these Japanese homes are so cheap (and so creepy)
Japan’s far-right surge: Sanseito and ‘Japan First’ politics in 2025
Is Trump blowing up Japan-U.S. relations?
Japan’s newspaper crisis: Losing readers, relevance and the next generation
Japan’s big heat: June’s deadly start to summer
Why Japan’s 2,000-year imperial family may not survive this century
Why Japan’s J-pop idol industry bans sex, dating and romance
Japan’s rice crisis: Why prices are soaring and what’s behind it
Why is Nissan failing — and what speed bumps lie ahead?
Japan’s sex industry boom: How tourism and the yen are changing everything