A more recent example occurred when, at the end of January, a series of prank videos in Japanese sushi restaurants started going viral on the internet. In one, a teenage boy is seen licking soy ...

TOKYO — A wave of pranks dubbed “sushi terrorism” has made Japanese diners think twice about the country’s iconic conveyor belt restaurants, driving changes to the way chains serve the ...

Asakusa, an area of Tokyo with a long history, is still brimming with tradition. It's a popular tourist spot with Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, Sensoji, drawing over 30 million visitors a year.

In 1972, Japan’s first line of jeans was made here. In Kurashiki’s traditional merchant town district is Denim Street, a small alley of shops selling upscale artisan items made of denim ...

Kokusai Street which is a sightseer favorite, Sakaemachi Market with its post-war reconstruction atmosphere, and Shurijo Castle, the palace of the former Ryukyu Kingdom are featured on the tour.

Japan’s exports grew for a fourth straight month in March, propelled by heightened demand for autos and semiconductors. Exports increased by 7.3% compared with the same period last year ...

The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust ...

Its bid to acquire the No. 2 Japanese long-distance firm may well fail, but that needn't set back the British telecom outfit. On Wednesday, C&W increased its bid for Japan's second-largest long ...

MANILA, Philippines: A Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight bound for Kansai, Japan was delayed for five hours following a report of a bomb inside the plane. The 200 passengers on board PR412 were ...