Photograph by Aflo Co. Ltd., Alamy Stock Photo Every year, around one million people attend Tokyo’s Sumida River Fireworks Festival, the largest and most popular fireworks festival in Japan.

TOKYO, - Japan must strengthen the yen, such as by helping boost the country's industrial competitiveness, as the currency's weakness has pushed up households' living costs, the ruling party's ...

Deep soaking tubs positioned by floor-to-ceiling windows turn Tokyo's skyline into meditation object. The property recently enhanced its wellness offerings with traditional Japanese therapies ...

Visitors queue at the entrance of Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, on April 13, 2025 [Chermaine Lee/Al Jazeera] The Osaka Expo risks repeating the “failure” of the Tokyo Olympics, said Morinosuke ...

Japan's antitrust watchdog plans to warn 15 operators of high-end Tokyo hotels for regularly communicating their respective room prices and occupancy rates, deeming the practice as approaching cartel ...

Not so much, as Japanese markets brace for the Trumpian headwinds to come. Team Ishiba hasn't been paying attention if it didn’t see this indignity coming. Part of the problem here is how Tokyo ...

The plan was announced Thursday in a news release from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, citing information from Japan’s Ministry of Defense In August, a short burst of heavy rain caused ...

Tokyo — President Trump in early March criticized what he characterized as a one-sided security alliance between the U.S. and Japan. Officials in Japan have heard these comments from Mr. Trump ...

Socially conservative Japan welcomed a record 36.8 million tourists last year, thanks in part to the weak yen. Tokyo police did not respond to requests from AFP for information about the increase ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sunday a plan to upgrade the U.S. military command in Japan, a country he described as indispensable in combating Chinese aggression. "We share a ...

TOKYO, April 21 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday Tokyo has no plan to terminate a trade deal struck with the U.S. in 2019, but will keep voicing "grave concern ...