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Professor in Japan Arrested for Running Illegal Sex Massage Parlor

By day, 49-year-old Takitani Hiroshi conducted life-saving research on earthquakes. By night, he was running an unlicensed sex shop.

The city of Nagoya and the 2025 Osaka Expo may be instrumental in reversing a habit that the 1970 Osaka Expo helped popularize.

SASAYA Holdings, which operates multiple restaurants in Osaka and beyond, says it's taken swift action after the incident went viral.

A couple's vacation to Hokkaido turned out worse than expected when they got stuck at 1,750 meters elevation in street clothes.

The existence at Expo of the carbonated barley drink, whose parent company is almost wholly owned by the Church, caused an online backlash.

Some bars, coffee shops, and taxi services in Japan are experimenting with tips. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?