A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization that provides support and information to help people relocate to rural areas of Japan said it ... about relocating to the countryside. The center also said ...

UTSUNOMIYA--High Field, a company in Utsunomiya, specializes in customizing large motorcycles and has clients throughout Japan ... at a motorcycle shop in Tochigi Prefecture.

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

The trip gave the impression that Japan’s relations with China were on the mend. Iwaya indicated that Japan would be open to hosting a Japan-China-South Korea Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in ...

A record number of visitors came to Japan in 2024, thanks to surging post-pandemic global tourism and a decline in the yen that’s making the island nation an attractive and affordable destination.

TOKYO -- Japan welcomed a record 36.87 million tourists in 2024, up 47.1% from the previous year thanks to the weak yen, according to data released Wednesday by the Japan National Tourism ...

He also indicated that there is room for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates. In its economic forecast released Thursday, the World Bank predicted Japan's gross domestic product will grow a ...

“It’s ironic that my husband moved to the US from Japan when he was 18, thinking he'd never go back, only to marry an American woman who never wants to leave.” In the Q&A below, we chat with ...

R.Park, A.R.Allen, C.B.Brown, R.Chahayed, O.Fedi, P.M.Lawrence II, Bruno Mars, T.M.Thomas, H.R.Walter, M.D.Chapman, N.Chinn Bruno Mars, Cirkut, O.Fedi, R.Chahayed ...

I’m talking, of course, about Japan’s shinkansen network, a supremely reliable service of trains that shoot through the countryside at more than 300km/h. We have fun choosing everyone’s eki ...