A Tokyo police smartphone app to scare off molesters has become a smash hit in Japan, where women have long run the gauntlet of groping on packed rush-hour trains. Victims of groping can activate the Digi Police app, which either blasts out a voice shouting ...

From his hut on the edge of Japan's "suicide forest," Kyochi Watanabe blasts John Lennon's "Imagine" into the night — hoping that music can lift people from their despair before it's too late. The 60-year-old musician has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the ...

From tiny one-person cubicles in underground stations to camping tents under towering skyscrapers and even offices in karaoke clubs: In workaholic Japan, salarymen are never short of a place to work. Unusual work venues are popping up all over the country as firms try to ...