This moody wood-paneled bar near Yotsuya Station in Shunjuku has been a decidedly serious place to listen to jazz since 1967.

Six Japanese food professionals — including four acclaimed chefs — took on what seemed to all of them like a near-impossible ...

A lot of the most popular shrines and temples are actually open 24/7, so the fact that you can technically go whenever you ...

TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters ... that the talks would take place on May 1 Japan time if arrangements can be made with the U.S. side. Sign up here. NHK also reported earlier Thursday that the ...

"The core inflation is likely to stay high at ... for food that took place on April 1, the start of Japan's new financial year. The launch of school education subsidies in Tokyo a year ago had ...

Tokyo said no such discussion had taken place. Kiuko Notoya and Hisako Ueno contributed reporting. River Akira Davis covers Japan, including its economy and businesses, and is based in Tokyo.

Despite the fallout from the devastating 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan remains locked in to nuclear power. Australia ...

It is believed that many of those who had said they wanted to stay in Japan for a while until the ... do they need to work? We need a place where we can discuss specific measures for financial ...

Editor's note: In the Lisa's Things, Places and Events series, Lisa Vogt visits old and new places of interest throughout Japan and introduce ... a Washington-born and Tokyo-based photographer ...