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The ukiyo-e artist Hokusai was famed for his "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," woodblock prints deeply symbolic of Japan. But one famous view of the...
The United States ambassador to Tokyo is known for not mincing his words. What has surprised, however, is his target: folks back home. "I have a...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s first remarks to the joint session of the U.S. Congress were perhaps also his most heartfelt. "I never get such nice...
South Korea’s parliamentary elections are not a referendum on the foreign policy of President Yoon Suk-yeol. Indeed, foreign policy barely ranks on...
(Mild spoilers for Netflix’s "3-Body Problem" follow.) Like many readers of Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body" series of novels, I was a bit taken aback by...
With its progressive zoning rules and "build, baby, build” attitude, Japan does not tend to have many "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) types. But the...
The Shohei Ohtani gambling scandal continues to get weirder. His news conference last week raised more questions than it answered, coming after the...
There’s still much we don’t know about the betting scandal that has enveloped Shohei Ohtani, baseball’s golden boy and possibly the greatest to...
Media reports that rival Japanese automakers Nissan Motor and Honda Motor are potentially entering into a partnership feel so unlikely it’s as if...
When can you have too much of a good thing? That’s the question being asked by Japan’s alcohol industry, where two of the country’s four major...
It should have been a victorious few weeks for Sony Group’s PlayStation 5. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, arguably the console’s first must-have...
In 1942, at the tender age of 11, Warren Buffett purchased the first of the many shares he would accumulate throughout his career. "What I bought was...
One of the most famous tales ever set in Japan is back. Walt Disney is spending millions on a glossy new adaptation of the James Clavell saga...
History might not repeat itself, but it rhymes. The last time Japanese stocks hit an all-time high, the yen was floating around 145 to 150 to the...
Japan has been trying to create a "virtuous cycle” of price and wage increases for over a decade. But there are perhaps only a few places where it...
There was a brief moment around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday where, as Taylor Swift played to 55,000 screaming fans in the first performance of her...
For a man who once said that the only thing he liked about Japan was that the people bow instead of shaking hands, it should come as little surprise...
The Ukrainian-born winner of a Miss Japan contest has reawakened a long-simmering question on the archipelago: What does it mean to be Japanese?...
On the surface, the U.S.-Japan security alliance might seem rosy: ever-closer defense ties, deeper cooperation and a shared vision for the...
Thirty-eight thousand nine hundred fifteen point eight-seven. It’s a number seared into the mind of any long-term Japan stock-watcher: The Nikkei...
Compared to the chaos that has engulfed Japan in the opening days of 2024, the final days of last year seem like a halcyon age. Before an earthquake...
Many in Japan were surprised to learn of the sudden surge of vitriol in the United Kingdom toward one of Tokyo’s corporate icons. Seemingly...
Before 2023 began, few saw the rise of interest in investing in Japan, long considered the land that optimistic stock bets go to die. But from spring...
For a long moment, Japan feared the worst. After the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck on New Year’s Day, authorities announced the most serious...
In a year in which Walt Disney struggled with expensive flops and audiences finally fell out of love with superhero movies, Japan scored a best-ever...
Almost a half century ago, Japan’s biggest political scandal saw the prime minister convicted of taking bribes and a porn actor attempt to murder a...
The World Expo might have a quaint quality for many in the English-speaking world — recalling events such as the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville,...
Fumio Kishida is in trouble. The prime minister is dealing with the lowest approval ratings since his Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in...
Along with his famed atomic breath, one of Godzilla’s powers is the ability to regenerate. The long-running movie series can revive itself, too. The...
Along with his famed atomic breath, one of Godzilla’s powers is the ability to regenerate. The long-running movie series can revive itself, too. The...
Some of Japan’s most notable companies are feeling somewhat listless about being listed. That might be the reason for the $5 billion take-private...
In Japan, saunas suddenly seem everywhere. On Instagram, influencers and actors appeared to visit them daily and the app was bombarding me with ads...
"It’s dangerous to go alone!” This might be the most famous line of any video game, uttered at the beginning of 1986’s The Legend of Zelda, as...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants to give money back to the people. They’re saying "no thanks.” Kishida has seen his popularity plummet to...
Tokyo’s Shibuya was once the center of raucous Halloween celebrations. But revelers are about as welcome this year as a box of healthy raisins in an...
Would you trust an 80-year-old driver with your life on some of the developed world’s most complex streets? If you’re one of the millions visiting...
Would you trust an 80-year-old driver with your life on some of the developed world’s most complex streets? If you’re one of the millions visiting...
The recent downfalls in Japan of the Unification Church and J-pop agency Johnny & Associates seem to be, on the face of it, victories for justice: Two...
Earlier this summer, U.K. Transport Secretary Mark Harper extolled the virtues of Japan’s bullet train network in a video that has aged even more...
Some 4,600 grocery items are becoming more expensive this month in Japan as the country’s food and beverage makers continue to pass on costs amid a...
Offices in many of the world’s major cities are struggling to find workers to occupy them. The trend of remote working, triggered by the pandemic,...
Microsoft’s video game head Phil Spencer might have been correct when he wrote, in a piece of corporate cringe straight out of HBO’s "Succession,"...
In the end, even the most iconic of Japanese artisans have to bow to demographics. The announcement that Studio Ghibli, the famed animation studio...
Shopping might be the most capitalist of all activities. Little wonder, then, that where we shop reflects capitalism back to us, capturing the...
It has been 20 years since an aging Bill Murray and a young Scarlett Johansson introduced Tokyo to a generation in Sofia Coppola’s "Lost in...