Initiatives include pop-up information offices, projection mapping displays, and subsidies for businesses, all designed to ...

Municipal governments of Tokyo's central wards are taking a variety of measures to encourage foreign visitors to keep the yen ...

Host clubs, where young male staff "pamper and flatter" female guests, are "booming" in Japan. Some 21,000 male hosts work at 900 of these lucrative establishments but opaque prices for drinks and ...

Tokyo excels at all things nocturnal. As the sun disappears behind the skyscrapers and office workers pour into the streets, the futuristic urban landscape lights up in a show of neon – and ...

fetish bars and karaoke clubs here, where she was about to spend another night outside the lines of conventional Japanese society. A translator by day and a bartender and punk singer by night ...