The best places to stay, eat, shop and visit across the country, according to Japanese artists, designers and chefs.

Six Japanese food professionals — including four acclaimed chefs — took on what seemed to all of them like a near-impossible ...

Go to the <a href=" to get 20% off an annual membership ▶ In this video, we will explore the names of each prefecture in ...

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

In western Japan, Himeji Castle is preparing to implement a dual-rate admission policy. Starting in March 2026, local ...

Kuroshio is a small town in the western part of Kōchi Prefecture ... appointed professor at the University of Tokyo. In the city of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, many lives were lost to the ...

Only two prefectures, Tokyo and neighboring Saitama, had population increases with numbers falling in the country's remaining 45 prefectures. Akita prefecture, in the northern part of Honshu ...

This is our review of the Conrad Tokyo hotel, part of Hilton Honors. After an exceptional stay at the Conrad Osaka last year (review here), I couldn’t resist checking in to Conrad Tokyo to see how it ...

system was resumed Monday afternoon after system failure impacted a total of 106 toll gates on 17 routes in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Yamanashi, Nagano, Aichi, Gifu and Mie prefectures.The emergency ...

A technical problem has shut down the electronic toll collection system on some expressways in Tokyo and seven other Japanese prefectures. Central Nippon Expressway Company says the trouble began ...