For Yuzuha Oka's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
At Uniqlo stores worldwide, staff greet every customer with "Welcome to Uniqlo!" They briskly walk around on a clean, white sales floor, refolding and restacking clothes, rarely talking to customers or each other unless approached. It's a Japanese style of customer service based on a strict ...
Japan's mega-robot creator is up for a battle of the bots after being challenged by a rival maker of the behemoths in the United States. Suidobashi Heavy Industry founder Kogoro Kurata accepted a challenge Monday to partake in a robot brawl proposed by U.S. robotics ...
The municipal government in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, is retroactively withdrawing support for a public event after an all-girl pop group performed a song that criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Japanese scientists have developed a device that they say detects most kinds of cancer from a drop of blood in only three minutes. The device uses a biochip, a sensor comprising multiple tiny test sites. It functions by attracting a faintly luminous substance found in ...
A decision by the Tokyo District Court to reject a compensation case against a night club hostess who had a long-running sexual relationship with one of her clients effectively endorses adultery, experts say. The ruling said the man's wife was ineligible for compensation from the ...
A 23-year-old student from China who attends the prestigious University of Tokyo is now looking for a job in Japan. But her quest to achieve the "Japanese dream" of working at a major Japanese company, and earning roughly four times what she could make back ...
Have you ever dreamed of chasing the Golden Snitch on a broomstick, as Harry Potter does in the game of Quidditch? How about releasing a devastating "Kame Hame Ha" energy wave like the character Goku in the Dragon Ball manga and anime? Our world and the ...
