Since Japan sees the sun rise 16 hours before California, we fly backwards in time. Twenty-five hours in transit, leaving ...

Pop-up art, cheap theater tickets, Chinese food and a well-situated, if noisy, hotel: How to see Manhattan (and a bit of ...

The new banknote, in circulation since July, features the face of Shibusawa Eiichi, an industrialist regarded as the 'father ...

Jenny had been born in Changi, a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Singapore. There, she and her mother, Daphne, stayed in a ...

JAPAN is surprisingly affordable for a family getaway now, with the Yen at a decades-long low against the Pound, making ...

Over the low rumble of trains on tracks — a recording played through a speaker behind the bar — customers debate the hottest ...

particularly by making its warm-water “Washlet” bidet seats a household name in Japan. The Toto Museum, which stands on the grounds of the company headquarters in the city of Kitakyūshū ...

A luxury all-inclusive cruise of East Asia including Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Kagoshima, and Nagoya with Regent Seven Seas.

Every day 6.5 million people ride the dizzyingly complex transport network Tokyo Metro. Starting Wednesday, Tokyo Metro stock ...

The long-awaited listing, which was heavily oversubscribed and has raised ¥348bn ($2.3bn), is Japan’s first privatisation of a government-owned company since the IPOs of JR Kyushu, which raised $4bn ...

Discover the unique charm of cities in Japan. From quirky vending machines to animal cafes, explore the fascinating ...