Good to know: In winter, dress warmly. All visitors are required to sit on the temple’s chilly floor and use a calligraphy ...

Young people in Japan tend to stay with their parents until they get married, so spending a night together outside the ...

From tiny toilets to themed restaurants, amusement parks, and arcades, there are so many reasons to visit Japan with kid ...

Is the Japan tourism bubble at risk of bursting? - SPECIAL REPORT: The number of people visiting Japan hit record levels in ...

So you can imagine the lack of Christmas ... In 1974, just four years after KFC's arrival in Japan, the American fast-food chain launched its first Christmas campaign, offering a bucket of KFC’s ...

Marissa Alper for The New York Times Mr. Nakazawa left his parents’ house in Tokyo at 15 to learn the cooking trade, mostly so he could stop ... “I wondered why they were doing all this ...

"All the teams are at a similar level of technical ability so it's about who wants ... and rugby tournaments are also popular and soccer reporter Masashi Tsuchiya said it was because school sports ...

TOKYO -- In the third week of December, two major events took place that underscored Japan's close ties to the rest of Asia in energy and decarbonization efforts. One came Dec. 17 with the release ...

“All the teams are at a similar level of technical ability so it ... are also popular and football journalist Masashi Tsuchiya said it was because school sports strike a chord in Japan.

Here is a look at what the latest change is about and why Japan is rapidly easing weapons ... and it would require Cabinet approval to do so. Japan has long prohibited most arms exports under ...

Ginzan Onsen is joining a raft of popular tourist destinations to regulate visits as Japan receives a record tourism boom in recent months. The country already recorded 33 million overseas ...