The JR Keiyo Line is the most direct route from central Tokyo to Makuhari. Charge a Suica or Pasmo card before race day to ...

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Ghost of Tsushima brought it global fame, but Tsushima has stood for centuries as Japan's edge-of-empire island.

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Tokyo Disney Resort has raised its top ticket price six times since 2019, and the seventh hike will happen this October.

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Several notable Japanese books in translation in the last few years have come from non-traditionally “Japanese” perspectives. This year alone, Li Kotomi’s Solo Dance, about a queer Taiwanese woman ...

The Ogasawara Islands are part of Tokyo, yet isolation and decades of American rule gave them a language found nowhere else ...

Once a noble’s bathrobe and later a summer staple for city dwellers, the yukata has never been just a throw-on rental. With meaningful motifs, symbolic colors and time-honored styling tricks, it’s ...