U.S. dollar mark in Tokyo's foreign exchange market on Thursday, reaching its highest level since early December before slightly retreating during Friday's midday trading. The yen's recent rebound is ...

O ne of the last three remaining Japantowns in the country, Little Tokyo was first established in the early 1900s as a settling place for Japanese immigrants. Years later, the are ...

Muji is expanding — big time. What once started as a small home and lifestyle brand that sold only 40 products is now ...

Tokyo is one big playground ... internet research on travelling in Japan with kids, you will find all sorts of suggestions of activities, from robot restaurants to kid-friendly museums to ninja ...

To replace those confusing 5% to 22% health and wellness fees that sometimes even expected a tip on top, let’s simplify: Every bill at a full-service restaurant should have a checkbox for a default 20 ...

Ballbots are versatile robotic systems with the ability to move around in all directions. This makes it tricky to control ...

It’s not hard to understand why capys have a cultlike following on Instagram and TikTok. I fell for the giant rodent decades ...

Consultancy group Resonance has published its inaugural list of the best cities in the Asia–Pacific region, ranking which ...

Standing outside the Divercity Tokyo Plaza Mall in Odaiba is Gundam’s 20 m (67 ft) tall statue, a fictional robot and star of the long-running Japanese manga and anime ... development of art galleries ...

WIRED tests the benefits and limitations of using generative AI, specifically ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, as a language ...

Toridoll’s proposed $70 million privatization of Tam Jai International comes three years after it took the Chinese-style rice ...

Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)--Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Waseda University said Thursday that they have developed a robot hand that uses cultured human muscle tissues. The biohybrid hand ...