A special exhibition is offering rare glimpses of daily life on a mostly forgotten former U.S. military housing complex in western Tokyo in the early postwar period. Among the items are photos ...

Japan's household spending in January increased a real 0.8 percent from a year earlier, rising for the second straight month, ...

TOKYO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The average monthly household spending in Japan rose 0.8 percent year-on-year in inflation-adjusted real terms in January, marking the second consecutive month of growth, ...

"Japan has gradually cranked up the expectations on housing," Daniel Aldrich ... In one such case, a 15-building concrete Tokyo apartment complex, complete with steel shutters and a sprinkler ...

TOKYO — Yoshiko Abe is about to turn 89, but that hasn't stopped her from going to the gym every day and trying the free-of-charge makeup course at her housing complex. “It was really helpful ...