U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi spread a photo symbolizing the “strongest alliance in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Naruhito's grandfather, Hirohito, known posthumously as the Emperor Showa, was treated as a god but renounced his divine ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Japanese plug-in electric car market is in a disappointing stage. After a 7% decrease in 2018, in 2019 sales decreased by another 17% year-over-year to 43,867. The market share was just 0.8% ...