A string of arrests has put the future of Japan’s popular “video game bars” into serious doubt. I press record. “Just by doing this interview,” I say, “to a certain degree you’re really putting a ...

It's one of the hottest new trends in Japan: Bars without booze. Raising glasses of non-alcoholic wine, millennial customers say they do enjoy the real thing, but only on special occasions. "I'm not ...

Naomi Waxman is the former reporter for Eater Chicago and an award-winning journalist who covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups. The city’s Japanese drinking scene is undergoing a quiet revolution, and ...

Tokyo is a city filled with tiny spaces, so it’s not unusual for bars or restaurants to have room for a dozen patrons or fewer. But Hitori, a bar in the chic Shinjuku district, stands out from the ...