After already breaking records for inbound tourism last year, the government hopes to double the number to 40 million by 2020.
So far this year, more than 10 million non-Japanese visitors have ...
Bandai is targeting women in their twenties and thirties with its latest venture.
Otona Joshi Biyori (literally, Adult Girls Beautiful Weather) will open on June 24th in Tokyo Character Street, a ...
One of Tokyo's most iconic railway stations is set to lose its beloved exterior and poky atmosphere. JR East plans to overhaul JR Harajuku Station with a new, larger station building and major ...
The latest bizarre marketing campaign by a Japanese beer brand purports to turn you into a voyeur spying on a beautiful girl's life.
Can Shiten shows the world from the perspective ("shiten" in ...
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This summer there will be an Upper House election in Japan and for the first time, those aged 18 and 19 can vote.
To raise awareness of this new enfranchisement, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government ...
On May 19th, Katsuya Okada unveiled the new logo of the newly formed political party, the Minshinto.
The Democratic Party, as it is called in English, was formed out of the merger of two other ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made a political song and dance out of his apparent efforts to create a "a society in which women shine". However, it seems not everyone got the memo that female ...
The return to Japanese TV screens last week of the 32-year-old unmarried TV "talent" Becky was a major event for the entertainment industry. Her homecoming after weeks of exile attracted 24% of the ...
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Japan has a troubled relationship with feminism to put it mildly.
Remember Bijin Uketsuke, the "beautiful receptionist" app? Or the jeers Ayaka Shiomura had to endure in the Tokyo Assembly from ...
Dogged by problems since preparations began, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics now face another potential scandal. The Guardian has revealed a mysterious payment made to a Singaporean bank account linked to a ...
Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima in May, it was officially confirmed by the White House.
This will make Obama the first sitting president to visit the city where the first nuclear weapon was ...
Buddhism is making a comeback (if it ever went away), in unusual places.
From Buddhist bars -- the most famous of which is Vowz in Yotsuya -- to the "monk delivery service" available on Amazon ...
In 2014, many noted the death of gyaru culture as two of the prominent hostess and gyaru fashion magazines -- Koakuma Ageha and egg -- closed down.
Then in 2015, something seemed to give and there ...
Mori has made its mission to create "cities-within-the-city" complexes, most notable in Roppongi but also in Aoyama with the Omotesando Hills.
In mid-2014 Mori Building opened the Toranomon Hills ...
Which Japanese fashion model do you look like?
That's the tempting question asked by Dare Who?, a website that allows you to upload your portrait and then let it analyze and calculate your closest ...