Japan Travel News

The war clouds over the Korean peninsula are darkening perceptibly in the wake of US Secretary of State John Kerry's official visits to Tokyo and Seoul last month.

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The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, an American company, announced at a press conference in Tokyo on May 7 that "the Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto" will open on February 7, 2014 in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, on the former site of Hotel Fujita Kyoto.

South Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II lead an anti-Japanese protest by about 50 activists outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul on 11 April 2001.

The South Korean ambassador to Japan slams Toru Hashimoto for his remarks justifying Japan's wartime sex slave system, saying the Osaka mayor lacks historical knowledge and regard for the rights of women.

Context, the critically acclaimed walking tour company whose small-group, scholar-led "walking seminars" have revolutionized day tours in cities across Europe and North America, announces its continued expansion into Asia with the opening of tours in Tokyo and Kyoto.

When Heidi Klum and Gisele Bundchen board their private jets, they're not headed for your local watering hole in Fayetteville.

Former South Korean comfort woman Kil Un-ock, centre, who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sexual slave during WWII, shouts slogans during a rally against the recent comment of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in front of Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.

If we were to tell you that American Airlines only just began flying to Seoul, you'd probably say "what, they weren't flying there already?!" As crazy as it seems, it's the truth.

Rare visit: Isao Iijima, right, adviser to Japan's Cabinet, arrives at Pyongyang airport on Tuesday.

Within reach: An official at Mation Inc., which offers wedding services at a low cost, looks at a wedding dress at its showroom in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward last month.

At long last, warm weather has arrived, which means more playtime in Tokyo's parks - from your scrappy, local patch of dirt to the manicured opulence of Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden.

MACHI, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn welcomed the yen's recent decline to what he called "neutral" levels for the Japanese automaker's profitability, but said Tuesday it must drop further to be "normal." "The abnormal situation of the yen is hopefully something of the past," he told reporters at the roll-off ceremony for a new ... (more)

MACHI, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn welcomed the yen's recent decline to what he called "neutral" levels for the Japanese automaker's profitability, but said Tuesday it must drop further to be "normal." "The abnormal situation of the yen is hopefully something of the past," he told reporters at the roll-off ceremony for a new ... (more)

For singer Eva Miklas Takamine, who also has been head of the Czech Center in Tokyo since March, singing both Czech and Japanese songs is a way of expressing her identity.

Both Japan and Australia need to inform the public as to what agreement may or may not have been reached secretly during current trade negotiations.

In case you missed this news last week, American Airlines launched its newest route to Asia with daily nonstop service between Seoul's Incheon International Airport and its biggest hub at Dallas/Fort Worth.

TOKYO, May 13 -- _ ---------- H.K. securities watchdog revokes tycoon Li's property scheme HONG KONG - An investment-linked property sales scheme offered by a company owned by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing to counter government measures to cool the property did not get proper authorization, the Securities and Futures Commission said Monday.

The technologically advanced hangers are developed by a Japanese multifunctional online service company, TeamLab Inc.

More than 100 female specimens of Osedax on a gray whale bone collected at 633 meters depth from the Monterey Submarine Canyon.