Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

The robotaxi industry leader heads across the Pacific into an uncertain regulatory landscape, even as it continues its march ...

Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...

These real cities in Japan served as the major inspiration for some of the Yakuza franchise's most iconic locations.

For a big city, Tokyo is pretty safe. Crime rates are low and there isn't much of a reputation for pickpocketing (compared to Europe). Japan as a whole is considered to be one of the safest ...

Tourism, climate goals, and animal rights concerns are sparking a plant-based renaissance in a country famous for sushi and ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...

Sushi Row in Los Angeles, located on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, helped to spread the gospel of sushi ...

Starbucks Coffee Japan has announced it will introduce ... Some stores in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and other major cities will be categorised as type B, and prices there will rise about 4 per cent ...

A massive sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a truck and its driver a week ago, and has filled with sewage and debris, ...

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025.

He came to Tokyo for the last days of his two-week trip to Japan after visiting Kyoto and Osaka. He said Japan’s capital is one of the world’s top three cities, but it can’t hold a candle to ...