Inspired by prehistoric life, Tokyo’s Nikunotoriko restaurant offers a cave-like ground floor and a pretend forest in which patrons sit as if gathered around a campfire.

Tokyo has devised an unorthodox way to cheer up its populous during the coronavirus pandemic — by installing a giant 3D cat billboard above one of the Japanese mega-city's busiest districts.

Tokyo's fast internet, efficient public transport and perceived safety are part of why it has been labelled the world’s best ...

Tokyo Report | Society | East Asia Downtown Tokyo’s Homeless Fear Removal Ahead of Olympics Like the United States, Japan has a relatively high poverty rate for a wealthy nation.

TOKYO Every few minutes, there is a rumbling from above the vaulted ceiling as a bullet train passes overhead on its way to Kyoto and beyond; more frequently come rattles from the Yamanote-sen ...

The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown Tokyo and filled the streets with heaps of charred bodies. The damage was comparable to the atomic bombings a few months […] ...

The dozens of homeless people sleeping rough in shuttered Tokyo subway stations worry that with Japan’s image at stake authorities will force them to move ahead of the Olympics.

Shinjuku train station right before the shutters come down at 11 p.m., in corridors where “salarymen” rushing home and couples on late-night dates have just passed by. Dozens of homeless ...

Ripe tomatoes hang from conference room ceilings, rice paddies grow waist-high in the lobby, and a living facade of flowers and orange trees covers the expanse of the building's exterior. There's no ...

TOKYO — Shelters made of cardboard start popping up in the basement of Tokyo’s Shinjuku train station right before the shutters come down at 11 p.m., in corridors where &ldquo… ...

If Tokyo 2020 will truly have to be the “downtown games” it is then time for the city to demonstrate what challenges and opportunities the urban century reserves for us.