YOKOHAMA, Japan -- The Shonan coast southwest of Tokyo is quietly evolving from a casual respite from the big city into a luxury weekend hideaway as chic boutique hotels pop up across the area.

Forget the glossy brochures and the long, serpentine theme park queues. Forget Mickey Mouse, Ginza flagships, or cosplay go-karts weaving through traffic. This isn’t that Tokyo. This is the Tokyo ...

A manga’s eerie prophecy predicting a July 5 quake has triggered mass panic in Japan, crashing tourism, cancelling flights, ...

A rumor claiming that a devastating earthquake would strike Japan on Saturday (July 5) has recently gone viral on social media, drawing widespread attention. As a result, many foreign tourists have ...

Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan's tourism boom ...

TOKYO: Japan’s Nikkei ended slightly higher on Friday, as chip-related stocks tracked Wall Street’s strong overnight ...

A role model for today’s generation, Sindhu is an extremely popular athlete and enjoys an estimated net worth of Rs 59 crores ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police are working to identify a body found earlier this week in the home of 45-year-old actress Nagiko ...

Social media strategies have come to play an indispensable role in elections in Japan, with some pointing out that disregard ...

In Japan, prosecutors are powerful public officials who are meant to protect the public from rapists and other criminals. But ...

Explore Japanese artist Tomei’s work and philosophy of “toumei” (transparency). Try her aesthetic Monet-inspired jelly recipe ...

As for their local rivals Yokohama F Marinos, they find themselves with just 15 points and rooted to the bottom of the ...