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A 2025 survey revealed that nearly 20% of Japanese twentysomethings have struggled to pay for their living expenses due to spending money on in-game purchases for Gacha-style video games.

Japan has the highest life expectancy rate in the world in part because of universal health insurance, compulsory primary education and a general healthy lifestyle, according to a new study.

Japan’s financial regulator is surveying life insurers to examine risks tied to their growing practice of transferring policy liabilities to reinsurers backed by global investment firms ...

TOKYO -- Two major Japanese life insurers are planning to reduce their U.S. Treasury holdings in favor of Japanese government bonds in fiscal 2023 as they grow wary of high currency hedging costs ...