The Blue Stick soap, billed as a “superstar stain remover,” is the top-selling item among a range of products manufactured by prison labor at correctional institutions across Japan.

Wakame seaweed is well-loved in Japan, but it is turning up in more parts of the world as an invasive species. In Argentina, there is a movement not to view it as a sea "weed," but as a sea ...

Police in Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, have arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fraudulent obstruction of business after he mixed urine into hand soap in a drugstore toilet. Police said ...