As a teenager growing up in Tokyo, Japan, Madoka Koguchi attended a Japanese production of the musical Cats. The performance ...

From visiting a rural onsen to losing yourself in a game centre under neon lights, these are the best experiences in Japan ...

Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry ...

Walking the streets of Tokyo, Japan in February 2020. I show the areas of Akihabara, Asakusa, and Shibuya. Akihabara is known ...

Japan has the third-largest economy by nominal gross domestic product and the fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. Tokyo is the country’s capital. Bitcoin in Japan has a notable ...

One feature I didn’t care for was the edge-controlled buttons for the on-screen menu. Buttons that you can’t see what they do ...

Among the list of banned Pokémon episodes, none were quite as dangerous as this one that sent viewers to hospitals.

Tokyo-Japanese police arrested a man after they said he ploughed his car deliberately into seven primary school children in the western city of Osaka on May 1. The children, who had been on their ...

In 1885, Charles Hama, a former seaman from Japan, opened the now-closed Kame Restaurant ... With its neon Japanese signage, the area feels a bit like Tokyo’s Akihabara neighborhood, known for its ...

The children, who had been on their way home from school, were injured and rushed to hospital but all seven remained conscious.