Adam Withnall

Jan 12, 2025 | everand.com | Adam Withnall

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and waiters is proving a major challenge to the country’s economy.

Jan 11, 2025 | independent.co.uk | Adam Withnall

Inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji’s robots allow people to work at the Dawn cafe from anywhere in the world – ‘teleportation’ technology that could open up new demographics for Japan’s flatlining economy. Adam Withnall reports from Tokyo Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining birth rate, finding enough people to fill roles as taxi drivers, baristas and waiters is proving a major challenge to the country’s economy.

Jan 4, 2025 | independent.co.uk | Adam Withnall

special reportThe number of people visiting Japan hit record levels in 2024, but top ‘Golden Route’ destinations such as Kyoto and Osaka are suffering from overcrowding. If current trends are unsustainable, where should people go instead? Adam Withnall reports from TokyoWhen a Chilean woman posted a video on Instagram of herself doing chin-ups on a sacred torii gate at a Japanese shrine, the backlash was almost immediate.

Dec 10, 2024 | everand.com | Adam Withnall

A survivor of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during the Second World War has warned Vladimir Putin that he has no idea of the destruction and pain such weapons cause as the Russian president threatens the West with the prospect of nuclear war. Terumi Tanaka, one of a diminishing number of survivors of the US attacks on in August 1945, said the use of nuclear weapons would spell “the end of the human race” and that leaders like Mr Putin “don’t realise

Dec 9, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Adam Withnall

Interview Exclusive: Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning group representing survivors of the US atomic bomb attacks in 1945, tells Adam Withnall in Tokyo that civilisation as we know it is in imminent danger as Russia ramps up its sabre-rattling against the West over the invasion of Ukraine A survivor of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during the Second World War has warned Vladimir Putin that he has no idea of the destruction and pain such...