Nearly nine million homes remain abandoned, even in Tokyo, where officials on bikes keep an eye on empty buildings so they ...

Apartments measuring 45-60 sqm maintained their premium over the smaller ones. According to a Savills report, Tokyo’s rental ...

TOKYO/YAMAGATA — The number of burglaries targeting vacant houses that have not been occupied for a long time, has starkly increased in regional areas. The loss from such burglaries is particularly ...

Tucked away in a corner of central Tokyo, the Extinct Media Museum lives up to its name. From Betacam videotapes to floppy disks and vintage Sony devices, the museum is a showcase for old cameras ...

The three were British tourists who arrived in Japan about a week earlier and had gone sightseeing in Osaka and Tokyo. Holding up their cellphones and peering into houses on the side of the road ...

A person casts a vote in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election ... The outcome of the poll, regarded as a bellwether for the House of Councillors election expected to take place in late July ...

Impact Link This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Erik Buhrow, who bought a house in Japan's Niigata ... to be around foreigners in Japan. Tokyo and Osaka are very tourist-driven ...

The Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau offers a limited-time online event in February 2025 hosted through its digital business matching platform Tokyo Tourism Connection. The upcoming Virtual Tour ...