Royal Hotel Co., Ltd. has announced plans to open Noir by RIHGA Kobe Arima, a new hot spring resort under the Noir by RIHGA ...

Online travel agency Booking.com has released its list of ten “Travel Predictions” for 2026. Based on a survey of around ...

For residents and visitors to Tokyo, the closest isle worthy of the Cat Island designation lies in Kanagawa Prefecture, the capital’s neighbor to the south. Enoshima, which can be accessed from a ...

Yes, that’s right. Bear attacks and encounters were such a popular news item in the Land of the Rising Sun last year, it was almost comparable to COVID-19 and Trump updates. Bear encounters have been ...

For the next thousand years, Japanese paper folding was largely restricted to religious ceremonial use, as paper was expensive. However, paper-making was one of the many industries that flourished ...

雖然台灣也有所謂的路隊，讓小學生自己上下學，但通常多集中在家裡離學校真的很近的學生，或是中高年級生，低年級生一般還是多由家長接送。這一點在日本則不太一樣，日本的家長從小孩 ...

Robin Lewis walking on the Fukushima Coastal Trail at Nakoso Beach. When Robin Takashi Lewis first heard about the historic earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan in 2011, his first ...

Another precursor to Japan’s janken was mushiken where players would choose from three different hand signs—a snail (left), a frog (middle) or a snake (right ...

良品計畫株式會社以零售製造業者之姿，從商品企劃、製造、流通至銷售，「無印良品」品牌成功推向大眾生活裡，不僅在日本國內擁有許多店鋪，更揚名海外。從衣著類至生活雜貨到食品，用 ...

Bread first came to Japan through Portuguese traders and missionaries in the mid-16th century. However, Christianity was banned in the early 17th century, and any toehold bread had made went with it.

While shotengai is normally the term for a shopping district, you'll find that Miyakobashi Shotengai is instead populated with bars and yakitori shops. There were once indeed vendors' stalls here, but ...

To understand what happoshu (発泡酒) is, we first have to go back to Japan's Beer Tax Law. Introduced in 1901, the law required breweries meet certain production volume requirements in order to obtain a ...