Japan plans to make foreign driver's license conversion tests more stringent by significantly increasing the number of questions, police said Thursday. With more foreign drivers on the road, and the ...

For a long time, Japan had a very convenient system for licensed drivers from other countries to convert their permits to Japanese ones. For some, this involved a very, very, very simplified version ...

Among foreign residents in Japan, there are certain markers of prestige: permanent residency, N1 on the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, double-glazed windows. But none seem to divide along the ...