This photo shows the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. (Mainichi/Makoto Ogawa) As a countermeasure against the rising cost of living, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is offering 11,000 yen ...

UN rankings updated using new criteria to better reflect the mass urban transformation driving a global shift in how we live—and the megacities emerging from it. A new United Nations report has ...

Asia is home to nine of the world's 10 most populous cities in 2025, according to the United Nations. A new report identifies Jakarta, with 42 million residents, as having the largest population ...

Visiting Tokyo for the first time can feel like stepping into the future and the past at once. This vast, ever-shifting metropolis is all about contrasts: centuries-old shrines tucked beside glass ...

The Tokyo Marathon—the first World Marathon Major of 2024—took place Sunday morning in Japan. In near-perfect conditions, with a starting temperature of about 42 degrees, more than 37,000 runners took ...

I’m a lucky girl: I get to call Japan my second home. Growing up, I spent Saturdays at Japanese school and summers in Tokyo. I loved the buzzing cicadas and the natsu matsuris during August, but ...

UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services is dealing with a cyberattack that has caused a multi-day outage of some of the company's operations, including hosting and porting ...

Tsukiji Market is Japan's oldest and most famous fish market, and is best known for the unique meals visitors can have here. The wholesale tuna portion of the market moved to Toyosu, but Tsukiji still ...

This story, “Mountain Goat with a Handgun,” appeared in the June 1957 issue of Outdoor Life. I WAS WORKING my way around the last perpendicular cliff below camp when the wind and rain hit me, covering ...

Tokyo Expressway’s KK Line, a 2-kilometer elevated expressway cutting through the capital’s commercial Ginza district, will shut down Friday at 8 p.m. for a decadelong redevelopment project.

The hyperscale facility marks the operator's fourth site in Inzai, enhancing Colt DCS' capacity to support the nation's growing digital economy TOKYO, Feb. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Colt Data Centre ...