At the end of every year in Japan, various traditions are dusted off and trotted out, traditions calculated to ensure that the coming year is a good one. One of those traditions is to complete a ...

The marathon and race walk routes for the Tokyo 2020 Games have been announced, with IAAF president Seb Coe describing the marathon course as highlighting "the essence of Tokyo" and the race walk ...

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"Star Wars" fans in Tokyo, unite! The operator of Tokyo Skytree, Tobu Tower Skytree, has started a special event, in celebration of the highly anticipated science fiction movie "Star Wars: The Force ...

Originally a fishing village, Edo was the foundation of modern-day Tokyo. It started to prosper in the early 17th century and later went through a modernisation phase in the Meiji era (1868-1912), ...

In the early afternoon on March 11, I was at a meeting with a friend in the high-tech industry in the Yurakacho area of Tokyo, near the Imperial Palace. We had sat down with cups of coffee when I felt ...

Though they are located some 300 km south of Sendai, the closest major city to the epicentre of Japan’s 8.9 earthquake, the residents of Tokyo experienced significant disruptions today. Many rail ...