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Japan's planning to change how tourists shop: the country's new duty-free laws will now require requesting a refund at the airport.
A plan to extend the current five-year visitor visa to 10 years for China's elite has many on Japan's far right up in arms.
A popular onsen in Yamagata Prefecture brings in so much traffic that the city has instituted new rules to reduce congestion.
Will the World Expo 2025 in Osaka be a financial bust? It's trending that way - and Japanese taxpayers might be on the hook for it.
Japan's tourism boom is generating profits for many local businesses. However, it may be leaving domestic travelers out in the cold.
A site in Kamakura made famous by Slam Dunk is the latest Japanese tourism destination trying to clamp down on bad manners.
Singer-songwriter GACKT appears to have the solution for overtourism: return the country to isolationism.
With tourists continuing to stream into Japan, the cost of hotels - even those geared towards domestic travelers - is skyrocketing. That's forcing business travelers, who are assigned fixed budgets, to settle for capsule hotels - or worse.
Waymo is partnering with two companies in Japan to pilot self-driving "robotaxis" in seven cities in Tokyo next year. The experiment could provide more taxi capacity in the face of a chronic labor shortage. But is it safe?