Japan recorded an all-time high of more than 36 million foreign visitors in 2024, spending more than 8 trillion yen ($50.8 billion) for the first time, thanks to the tourism boom favored by its weak ...

Located on the southern island of Kyushu, Miyazaki Prefecture sits between Oita’s renowned onsen towns to the north and ...

Japan’s tourism boom is anticipated to continue in 2025. The East Asian island country is popular among Gen Z and millennials ...

As anyone who’s ever looked into the prospect of studying abroad at anything beyond the idle daydream level can attest, it’s ...

Fall in love with the food, culture, nature, and people while exploring cities such as Tokyo, Nikko, and Okinawa.

Record numbers of tourists flocked to Japan last year, figures showed on Wednesday, as the weak yen bolstered the appeal of ...

After travelling to Tokyo for meetings, Yoshiki Kojima's IT company employees crash out in a capsule hotel, as a tourism boom makes regular rooms too pricey for business trips.

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will travel to South Korea on Monday to shore up security cooperation between the ...

Portland-based tour operator Avanti Destinations and the Japan National Tourist Office (JNTO) have partnered to create a new ...

In interviews with The Independent in Tokyo, government officials and industry leaders ... says Kuniharu Ebina, president of ...

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious ...

Japanese startup Space Walker aims to make space transportation as "accessible as commercial air travel today." ...