A Nagoya-based nonprofit organization has started a free translation service to support elderly Chinese residents having trouble with Japan’s nursing care insurance system because of the language barrier and lack of knowledge. Wang Rong, 51, who heads Tokai Daily Life Support Center for Foreigners, ...

Japanese manufacturers and retailers are increasingly targeting big-spending Chinese visitors, with many recently shifting their focus from group tours to independent travelers. While Chinese group tours are known in Japan for bakugai (explosive buying) of Japanese goods, particularly electronics and cosmetics, a growing number ...

In mid-February, one of the world’s largest cruise ships, resembling a floating skyscraper, arrived at the city of Fukuoka, releasing some 5,000 Chinese tourists who then boarded more than 100 awaiting shuttle buses. The port of Hakata in Fukuoka Prefecture saw a record 245 ...

The perpetrators of last year’s deadly explosion at a Bangkok shrine originally chose a pier packed with Chinese tourists as their primary target and had amassed enough chemicals to make 10 equally powerful bombs, the chief of Thailand’s police bomb squad told Reuters. A ...

Tang Xili came to Japan in 2013, hoping to earn enough in three years to build a new home for her daughter. Instead, she ended up in a labor union shelter after leaving an employer she says owes her about ¥3.5 million in unpaid ...

As Chinese tourists flock to Japan for the first time, it’s not just shopping they leave with. Many are taking home new, positive perspectives of an often vilified nation. “Shop clerks were so kind,” said Zhang Yingxi, 21, a university student from Beijing as ...

With the Lunar New Year holiday underway, tourists from China are thronging Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district, loading up on duty-free electronics and luxury brands. “We saw twice as many customers as usual today,” a clerk at a luxury brand store said Sunday. “Our budget ...

Chinese tour groups can often be seen following guides clutching red flags in Japanese shopping districts, but organized tours may be losing their allure as travelers set out to go it alone. Chinese tourists are increasingly spurning group travel to stop and smell the ...