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Love Hotel Scandal Claims Career of Japanese City Mayor

Ex-mayor Ogawa Akira insists the 10+ times she went to a love hotel with another city employee were strictly business.

Japan has a brand-new top live-action box office record holder in the form of Kokuho, an epic kabuki drama.

The chain's owners ultimately ordered the store to take the sign down. Here's why many Japanese netizens defended it.

Why is China using tourism to Japan as a political cudgel? And how are ordinary Chinese citizens reacting to it?

Is Lawson Store 100's new dish a sign of Japan's dire economic straits? Or is it just responding to consumer demand?

As inbound tourists are poised to cross the 40 million mark a year, locations such as Nagano's Kamikōchi wage war against bad manners.