Jay Allen, Author at Unseen Japan

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

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

A recent incident involving a tired rapper and a self-checkout stand reveals anxiety around the growing use of the technology.

Tourists aren't the only ones causing ire in Japan: incidents of badly behaved railway photographers are on the rise.

The store says between 2 and 3 groups of tourists cancel every day, leaving a big hole in its bottom line.

The submitter confessed that they didn't even "create" the work themselves but instead took a pre-generated image from a website.