In 2019, Japan enjoyed its highest foreign visitor numbers on record, rounding off a ten year period of growth in the nation’s tourism sector. Japan’s 2019 Tourist Travel Boom in Numbers 1. The number ...

Japan’s Box Office Hit All-Time High in 2019 The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910 ...

For many, a smart city begins with technology. In Japan, it starts with a person. In local lore “customer is god,” and the customers of any city are its people. In the Japanese sense, being smart when ...

Just as kids pray for snow so that they can stay home from school, adults desperately want their employers to adopt four-day workweeks. The chance to have that one extra day to relax, take care of ...

Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country's use of the death penalty. One of the three, Yasutaka ...

A nonpartisan group of Japanese lawmakers on Thursday submitted a petition with 206 signatures to Foreign Minister Takeshi ...