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She won't do eveningwear or work for anyone else. But after 20 years, and with vast queues for her new range at Swedish multinational retail-clothing company, H&M, French designer Isabel Marant has burst her niche.

What is the most expensive city for expatriates around the world? No, it's not Tokyo, Japan, which has always topped the list of "most expensive" cities.

The Series E7 will do up to 160 mph on the Hokuriku Shinkansen railway, which links Tokyo and the Sea of Japan.

In our quest far and wide for the best of the best, our HYPEBEAST Road Trips stop in Osaka took us to a century old udon shop.

IMG Worldwide, the global sports, fashion and media company, and The Color Run, a unique 5-km paint race series, will hold its popular event in Japan next year sponsored by New Balance.

Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.

When Santa arrived at a school hosting children who fled Japan's nuclear disaster, he brought the usual presents, but he also bore something a little less ordinary -- gourmet Christmas dinner.

News photographers shoot and edit photos In Tokyo on Dec. 6 during discussion among Japanese cabinet members of the Lower House regarding a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet at Chamber of the Lower House at parliament in Tokyo, Japan, 06 December 2013 after an Upper House special committee approved a bill for new ... (more)

A new luxurious and leisurely sleeper train service operating in the southern Japanese island of Kyushu looks set to become the latest travel icon in Japan, a country known for its high-speed trains.

Fukushima: 'Unprecedented' - China bans all imports of shellfish from U.S. West Coast - Official: "They've never done anything like that that I've ever seen" - Includes Washington, Oregon, Alaska and N. California - Gov't says it will continue indefinitely KUOW , Dec. 13, 2013: China Imposes First-Ever West Coast Shellfish Ban [...] China has ... (more)

For over 1,000 years, Kyoto was the home to the Imperial Court. However when Tokyo was made the de facto capital in 1868 and then permanently in the 20th century, Kyoto's significance seemed to diminish as the country looked east to its new center.

Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Rebecca" and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and Nicholas Ray, died Sunday.

That's according to Fodor's, which named the Motor City a "Buzzy Sights" travel destination on its Fodor's Travel 2014 Go List .

A U.S. Navy Knighthawk helicopter crashed near the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan Monday, injuring two crew members, military officials said.

The Hozu-gawa River Boat Ride started its winter service, "Ozashiki dambo sen," or a heated boat with a carpet-seating section, on December 9. Many tourists boarded the boats straightaway at the pier at Hozu-cho, Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture.

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery announces Mangaland: A Tokyo Retrospective, marking photographer James Whitlow Delano's twenty years working in Japan.

Strengthening ties: Tan Sri Kamal Hashim and his wife, Noda and his wife Sanae Noda along with the Consul-General of Indonesia Ronald J.P. Manik and his wife at Emperor Akihito's birthday celebration.

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NYT Isn't Sure Whether Abenomics Has Led to a Shortage of Workers or a Shortage of Jobs, but It Wants Readers to Think It's Bad Japan's new Prime Minisiter, Shinzo Abe, is quite explicitly taking his country on an economic course that is 180 degrees at odds with the austerity policies being pursued in the United States and Europe.