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No Tourists at Lunch? Japanese Soba Store Sparks Controversy with Sign

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 manners.

As debate surges around immigration, new data shows some towns in Japan have foreign populations as high as 36%.

Many called the woman a bad mother and even an evil human being. But other overworked Japanese mothers sympathized.

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.

How the Red Cross and other organizations used war brides and the adoption of mixed-race children to fight the Cold War.