October brings a fresh wave of openings across Tokyo, from new restaurants and intimate bars to craft beer taprooms and design-focused retail spaces. With new concepts arriving in neighborhoods from Azabudai and Shibakoen to Ikebukuro and Futako-Tamagawa, there are plenty of new places to discove...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks opened mixed Thursday, as heavyweight technology shares lifted the Nikkei stock index while overnight declines in the U.
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OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Japan on Thursday hiked fees for foreign nationals seeking to change or renew their residency status, with the cost of permanent resi
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Laws enabling preemptive cybersecurity measures aimed at neutralizing hostile servers came into force in Japan on Thursday to address
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A key government panel on Wednesday called for more targeted budget allocation amid concerns over Japan's fiscal health under Prime M
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FUKAYA, Saitama -- The government of this east Japan city will offer popular "GariGarikun" ice treats from Akagi Nyugyo Co. for school lunches at 29 p
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A range of rules and systems affecting daily life in Japan will change in October, including mandatory measures against customer harassment and the st
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TOKYO -- Liquor tax changes taking effect Oct. 1 will unify Japan's tax rates for beer, "happoshu" low-malt beer and beer-like drinks known as "third-
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MITO, Japan (Kyodo) -- The mayor of a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, said Wednesday it will accept a preliminary survey that the industry min
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock index briefly up over 2 percent, lifted by artificial intelligence- and semiconduc
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NAGASAKI -- Amid an increasing number of foreign residents in this southwest Japan city, the local fire department has held a life-saving training ses
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court ruled Wednesday that voices are protected as a publicity right, similar to portrait rights, in the first such ruling
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KOBE -- One person died and another was left wounded after they were found collapsed on streets in different wards of the western Japan city of Kobe o
