Kyoto’s iconic Gion district holds secrets that only emerge when the sun sets, and most tourists head back to their hotels.

TOKYO-Japanese-themed manga and anime have been banned from one of China’s largest comic conventions, reported Hong Kong media, amid a continuing diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing. Participants ...

Kyoto hit 11 million visitors in 2024, the Japan National Tourism Organisation reports, a record that could quite possibly be ...

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Japan’s new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, has made quite a start. She’s sparked a major spat with China over Taiwan; told us that, like her idol Margaret Thatcher, she apparently gets by on minimal ...

Tony-nominated playwright Jeremy O. Harris could face years behind bars for drug smuggling, after MDMA was allegedly found in his baggage last month on the Japanese island of Okinawa. The 36-year-old ...

The Tony-nominated American playwright and actor has been in custody since airport customs officers found Ecstasy in his bag last month. By John Yoon and Kiuko Notoya The authorities in Japan said on ...

My passions for wine and jazz are roughly equal. So when I discovered a spot in Eugene that combines both, I hopped in my car and headed south. Nero Wine Bar, in the heart of Eugene’s Whiteaker ...

Japan's potential rate hike is a pivotal global risk, with the yen strengthening and JGB yields at multi-year highs. Japanese institutions may shift capital from US Treasuries to domestic bonds, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago of the Heart Project business in Japan, which he bills as a surrogate ...