The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1.25%, its highest level since 1995.

In Tokyo, answers to private lodging are beginning to diverge.On September 8, 2026, Shinjuku Ward announced new regulatory ...

Tokyo Game Show began as a three-day event in 1996, expanded to two annual events (spring and fall) in 1997, shrank back to ...

I have visited over 300 standing soba shops, mainly in Tokyo. I will be looking back and introducing some of the most ...

The boy band member is suspected of punching a woman in her 20s in the face at a parking lot on Friday evening.

Japan is flying military aircraft across South Asia this month for the first time since WWII. Those planes are one of the most tangible signs yet of a shift by Tokyo away from a defense strategy that ...

EBiDAN's "Yes! Tokyo" holds atop the Billboard Japan Hot 100, logging its third week at No. 1 on the chart dated Sept. 16.

Tokyo Game Show 2026 will be shortened from a 5-day event to a 4-day event due to Typhoon Dujuan approaching the coast of ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival has named its 15-title Gala selection, headlined by Fan Bingbing in Wayne Wang’s “Diary ...

A Tokyo court on Friday blocked ​drug wholesaler Toho Holdings' ‌takeover defence against an activist shareholder, in a closely watched ​case as Japanese ​companies increasingly resort to 'poison pill ...

From Kojima's PHYSINT lead reveal to Persona 4 Revival, Monster Hunter, and Wo Long 2, here is every major Tokyo Game Show 2026 announcement so far.

A sword of Damocles hangs over Tokyo, Japan's bustling capital with its 14 million inhabitants, as authorities estimate a 70% chance of an earthquake measuring 8 or 9 on the Richter scale striking the ...