Half an hour by train from Shibuya (the Tokyo district famed for its chaotic crossing), this lesser-known city may be the ...

A 34-year-old man and his 33-year-old ex-wife died Friday in Yokohama in what police believe was an apparent murder-suicide. According to police, a man called 110 at around 2:30 p.m. and said he had ...

A night out led to a Japanese Finance Ministry official losing documents containing personal information about nearly 200 ...

Yoko Kubota is The Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief ... Yoko speaks English, Japanese and Chinese. A native of Yokohama, she grew up in Japan and the U.S. and graduated from Princeton ...

Nights out drinking can often end badly. But in Japan, they have a habit of going spectacularly wrong for government ...

Another Jewish community was established in the port of Nagasaki. In fairly short order, the Russo-Japanese War and the Great ...

A Jewish kosher trip to Japan has never been easier with the emergence of kosher-friendly luxury hotels and gourmet kosher dining and options for Shabbat observance.

In the scrum of one of these Hyundai debuts at the Auto Salon, I catch the eye of a Toyota executive. “None of this, nothing ...

Avoid the crowds of Kyoto at this underrated Japanese city, where you can discover stunning gardens, preserved traditional ...

He began coming to Japan for short stays this ... soliciting male customers is increasing on the streets in and around the Wakabacho district in Yokohama’s Naka Ward as well, and Kanagawa ...

Use your imagination and place yourself on a busy Tokyo street. Pachinko machines go plinkety-plink and multicolored electric signs strobe and scroll. The seething crush of pedestrians moves like a ...