Japan welcomed a record 3.31 million visitors last month, official data showed on Wednesday, as the weak yen propelled a ...

Blackstone Inc. has emerged as the frontrunner to buy a mixed-use office complex in Tokyo being sold by Seibu Holdings Inc.

What is happening in our schools will shape what our future society will look like. While the Japanese system has its strengths and weaknesses, I hope this film provides the opportunity for other ...

Onsen resort villages are always a soothing way to relax and unwind. Kinosaki Onsen in Hyogo, north of Kyoto, is the rare hot springs village that is tattoo friendly. South of Tokyo in Shizuoka, head ...

Kohana Lam has a YouTube channel with over 650,000 subscribers, held a solo birthday concert at Tokyo venue Zepp Shinjuku in October, and gave her first overseas live performance in November. Now, ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died ...

This move builds on a 2007 ordinance that established smoke-free zones in six designated areas, including popular tourist ...

The trouble begins when an iconic rap group called The Dirty Dawg split into separate rap groups, each representing different divisions of Tokyo, Japan and compete in turf wars using the power of ...

In a grim mirror of Japan’s economic decline, the sex trade is drawing in foreign men and trapping local women in a cycle of ...