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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jul 19, 2011

Campaigns urge foreigners to pleeease visit Japan

The travel industry is doing its best to bring tourists back to Japan but is an Arashi promo video going to be able to do the job?
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 9, 2010

One time zone, shinkansen help NPB clubs on travel

Have you wondered how teams in Japanese baseball move from one city to another and how it differs from the hectic, rat race travel schedule endured by their cousins in the major leagues?
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2008

Travel agents shrug off Thai turmoil

JTB Corp. and H.I.S. Co., the nation's two largest travel agencies, said Wednesday that losses from canceled package tours to Thailand, where antigovernment protesters took control of two airports in the capital, haven't been bad because it isn't peak season yet.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2005

Asia travel uptick boosts H.I.S

Travel agency H.I.S. Co. said Friday its operating profit rose 2 percent to 1.85 billion yen during the six months through April, led by growth in overseas travel.
BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2005

World Cup berth has travel agents, TV sellers purring

Japan's win Wednesday over North Korea, which secured its berth at the 2006 World Cup soccer finals in Germany, is a source of delight for travel agents and consumer electronics stores nationwide.
JAPAN
Apr 13, 2004

Foreign Ministry official sees need for banning travel to risky areas

The government should consider legislation that would allow it to ban Japanese nationals from traveling to countries it deems dangerous, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2003

Travel agencies suffer 38% plummet in overseas trips

Japan's 50 biggest travel agencies saw sales of overseas trips during the April-September period drop 38.2 percent from a year earlier to 767.9 billion yen due to the SARS epidemic.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 12, 2003

'Luxury Travel Show' hits town, aiming for TV

Varun Sharma is tall, handsome, immaculately dressed, and can talk the hind leg off a donkey. He is also a truly gentle man in displaying genuine concern for the bell "boy" at the new Marunouchi Four Seasons, who turned out to be a young woman of such tiny, fragile proportions that he feared for her...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 1, 2003

Travel or reality show? A bit of both and neither

The TV Tokyo series, "Inaka ni Tomaro" ("Let's Spend the Night in the Countryside"; Sunday 7 p.m.), which started several months ago, is categorized as a travel show, but its appeal is similar to that which characterizes reality shows, namely the spectacle of people placed in real-life situations that...
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2002

Japan to join visa-free business travel system

Japan plans to join a system that allows businesspeople to travel in the Asia-Pacific region without the use of visas, government sources said Monday.
LIFE / Travel
Apr 1, 2000

English guide to Japan travel launched on Web

The Japan National Tourist Organization this week launched a powerful tool for English-speaking foreign visitors to Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2023

Global oil traders focused on potential boom in China holiday air travel

Global oil traders are fixated on the next milestone in China’s economic recovery, when travelers pack their bags and head to the airport for the Golden Week holiday in early May.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2023

Airlines turn profitable amid travel surge after COVID cutbacks

'Aviation is investible again,” said a portfolio manager in Sydney. 'Asian airlines are going to go through the roof.”
Barbed wire fences are seen outside a shuttered Great Wall Park compound where Cambodian authorities said they had recovered evidence of human trafficking, kidnapping and torture during raids on suspected cybercrime compounds in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, last September.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2023

Hit Chinese movie raises fears of travel in Southeast Asia

Offering a look at the workings of cybercrime in Southeast Asia, “No More Bets” has dampened Chinese travelers' desire to go there.
Fukuoka, known for its outdoor food stalls, is a popular destination for Japanese tourists, but now it's starting to draw more international travelers, too.
LIFE / Travel
Sep 9, 2023

Beyond its yatai, Fukuoka hosts travel pleasures aplenty

Tourists come for the city’s lauded cuisine, its casual atmosphere, vibrant arts and nightlife scenes and temperate climate.tk
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in October last year.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 19, 2024

Putin to travel to China in May for talks with Xi, sources say

The visit could be the Kremlin chief's first overseas trip of his new presidential term.
A screen shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping shaking hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin before a meeting with the leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization members at the SCO Summit in Qingdao, China, in June 2018.
WORLD / Politics
May 14, 2024

Putin to travel to China this week for state visit and talks with Xi

The Russian leader will visit China on Thursday and Friday, the Kremlin said Tuesday, in his first trip abroad since his re-election in mid-March.
Tourists take pictures from a boat on the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2024

Thailand is already seeing signs of a 'White Lotus' travel bump

The series recently wrapped filming at several resorts and locations in the nation.
A road is flooded after heavy rainfall in the municipality of Neulengbach, in northeast Austria, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 16, 2024

Floods bring travel chaos and damage across central Europe

Authorities in Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Romania are working to keep residents safe amid damage to homes and infrastructure.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks with voters in Tokyo on Saturday ahead of Sunday's general election.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2024

Japan party heads travel 84,000 km to campaign for general election

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, clocked 14,387 kilometers, longer than any other party leaders over the 12 days.
A car stuck in the snow in Obihiro, Hokkaido, on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2025

Heavy snow in Japan to persist through Sunday, disrupting travel

The weather agency warned of blizzards, high waves and hazardous road conditions through the weekend, urging residents to avoid nonessential travel.
Air Canada has collaborated with chef Masaki Hashimoto (center) of Toronto's one-Michelin-starred restaurant Kaiseki Yu-zen Hashimoto to create its new in-flight menu for its Signature Class.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 12, 2025

Air Canada has a new 'kaiseki'-inspired menu

The airline wants to give its customers ‘a real Japanese experience’ before they land in Japan.
The Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art is just one of many hidden art and architectural gems across the Kagawa coast.
LIFE / Travel
Mar 15, 2025

‘Resorts for the spirit’: Touring Kagawa’s art and architecture

The seaside cities of Takamatsu and Marugame are home to a heritage of beauty, from the monolithic to the modern.
New Japanese passports will be printed using laser technology based on banknote printing techniques, making forgery more difficult.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2025

Applications for forgery-proof passports start in Japan

Passports issued for applications submitted from Monday onward will feature a new design.
Silversea Cruises' culinary program takes guests on a rich gourmet experience at wellness retreat Zenbo Seinei, where the local produce is presented in an eight-course meal.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 1, 2025

Waves of umami: Awaji Island's culinary trove

Silver Nova, one of Silversea Cruises’ newest vessels, takes guests on a food excursion on the largest island of the Seto Inland Sea with an immersive gourmet program.
U.S. President Donald Trump stands with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New Jersey on June 8.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 16, 2025

Trump administration weighs adding 36 countries to travel ban, memo says

The directive was part of an immigration crackdown Trump launched this year at the start of his second term.
Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Tehran on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2025

Japan raises travel warning for Iran to highest level

"The situation is becoming increasingly tense," Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya told a news conference, adding that the government will do all it can to protect Japanese nationals.
The Transportation Security Administration’s reversal on removing shoes ends a policy that has been for nearly two decades one of the most visible — and criticized — features of the post-9/11 heightened U.S. airport security system.
WORLD
Jul 9, 2025

U.S. travelers can keep shoes on at airport security, TSA says

The reversal ends a policy that has been for nearly two decades one of the most visible features of the post-9/11 heightened U.S. airport security system.
Japanese passport holders have visa-free access to 190 destinations out of 227 globally.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 24, 2025

Japan ties with South Korea for second most powerful passport

Japan continues to hold the world’s second most powerful passport — tied with South Korea — according to a new global ranking.

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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes