To celebrate 350 years, Mitsukoshi department store’s main Nihonbashi shop in Tokyo will start selling a set of sweet buns powdered with gold dust and “koban” coins made of pure gold on ...

Local media reported that the exhibition features over 1,000 pieces, including oval gold koban coins widely used in the Edo Period (1603-1868), and also includes teaware, tableware, and other ...

As other cops on the beat here have done for nearly six decades, Shion Takeuchi casts a vigilant eye on Tokyo’s bustling Roppongi district out of a “koban” police box. While on the job ...