OSAKA, Japan - Officials with a Japanese department store are reportedly reconsidering plans for female employees to wear a special badge when they are menstruating. According to The Japan Times, the ...

TOKYO—Japan’s department stores saw their June sales decline six percent, the Japan Department Stores Association said Friday. Registering their 28th consecutive month of decline, the retailers’ sales ...

TOKYO — May was another rough month for Japanese retailers. Department stores’ May sales slid 12.3 percent to 511.2 billion yen, or $5.28 billion, from a year ago, the Japan Department Stores ...

Last year Japan’s Osaka Electro-Communication University opened a new department of digital games with 135 students. This year the department received applications from nearly 1,000 prospective ...