Yayoi Kusama, avant-garde artist world-renowned for her obsessive polka dot and net paintings, is opening a museum in the center of Tokyo this fall, the new museum said on its website. The planned five-story museum will open Oct. 1 in Shinjuku Ward where it will ...

Designers and clothing retailers are spotting what has previously been a niche trend now gaining widespread popularity in Japan, drawing a growing number of fashion-forward customers from within the country and overseas: T-shirts. Not just any old T-shirt though, the objects of desire are designs ...

A year since becoming Tokyo governor, Yuriko Koike is riding high. In that time, she has won over voters by successfully portraying herself as an iconoclast battling the "black box" opacity that she says has long pervaded the decision-making process in Tokyo. Her latest accomplishment is ...

The number of patients suffering from tick-borne diseases, some of which are life-threatening, is increasing at a rapid pace this year, prompting alarm among medical experts. In particular, experts have flagged two infections for which no vaccines are available, noting that the bites through which ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Wednesday unveiled the process for public submissions to name of the female giant panda cub born in June at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo. From Friday morning through Aug. 10, anyone who would like to participate can suggest a name ...

Hoping to generate an Olympic buzz at home and overseas, Tokyo's 2020 organizers kicked off the countdown to the games on Monday — exactly three years before the opening ceremony — by releasing the lyrics for a promotional theme song and summer dance. But the ...

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike backs off a vow to clean up the toxic water under Toyosu and says the Tsukiji fish market might reopen there next spring.

Following the announcement last week of a free trade deal between Japan and the European Union, Harold Forsyth, Peruvian Ambassador to Japan, vowed Wednesday to strengthen trade ties between Japan and Peru. "The challenge will be to promote much more diverse and intense Japanese investment ...

As a child, Noriko Ishizaka was ashamed of her father's company — a waste disposal firm with towering smoke stacks overlooking a small town in Saitama Prefecture. "People would call him 'the garbage collector' ... and I wasn't proud of that," she recalled. But Ishizaka Sangyo ...

A day after leading Tomin First no Kai (Tokyoites First) to a landslide victory in the metropolitan assembly election, Gov. Yuriko Koike reaffirmed her commitment to reform but said she would resign as leader of the upstart party to focus on the job at ...