In 2019, Japan enjoyed its highest foreign visitor numbers on record, rounding off a ten year period of growth in the nation’s tourism sector. Japan’s 2019 Tourist Travel Boom in Numbers 1. The number ...

On May 31, 2019, the National Diet, the Japanese national legislature, passed an amendment bill to the Payment Services Act (the “PSA”) and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (the “FIEA”), ...

Japan’s Box Office Hit All-Time High in 2019 The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910 ...

For many, a smart city begins with technology. In Japan, it starts with a person. In local lore “customer is god,” and the customers of any city are its people. In the Japanese sense, being smart when ...

Japan should bolster deterrence through drones and submarines equipped with long-range missiles as China expands its maritime asserti ...

Japan's output gap in the April-June quarter was upgraded to 0.3%, its largest since July-September 2019, after reflecting a ...

Just as kids pray for snow so that they can stay home from school, adults desperately want their employers to adopt four-day workweeks. The chance to have that one extra day to relax, take care of ...