You can’t visit Tokyo without seeing them. These pale-yellow boxes of individually wrapped bite-size cakes are emblazoned with images of the capital’s most famous tourist attractions and, sometimes, ...

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Holy Cow! After more than 130 years, the historic Peter Luger Steak House has opened its first restaurant outside the US. The new three-story eatery, which started welcoming guests Thursday, occupies ...

The proportion of household spending on food reached record highs in nearly 80 percent of major Japanese cities over the five ...

TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) - Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday apologised for ordering too much food for their staff during the opening ceremony and letting it go to waste after videos of ...

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TOKYO—Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up in March due to higher food prices, staying above the Bank of Japan’s target of 2%. Consumer prices excluding volatile fresh food rose ...

Japanese government officials have released an AI video to show just how devastating an eruption at Mount Fuji could be. But ...