
Lifestyle Dec 5, 2020
Spaces for living: How Tokyo’s urban landscape deals with change
by Russell Thomas
Exploring the city’s constant flux — and the cost to its heritage.
Spaces for living: How Tokyo’s urban landscape deals with change
Exploring the city’s constant flux — and the cost to its heritage.
Art or vandalism? Japan tries to find the right balance with street graffiti.
Tokyo looks to find the right balance between encouraging creative expression and protecting buildings from vandalism.
Photo essay: This is Halloween ... in Tokyo 2020
Despite officials’ pleas to stay home, crowds of revelers — with and without masks — converge for a costume street party in Shibuya.
Halloween revelry in Japan to take new forms during pandemic
Shibuya has been rendered in a virtual form to allow people to show up as costumed avatars for the night.
Tokyo now has transparent public toilets. Let us explain.
Public toilets around the globe have a reputation for being dirty and dangerous. Tokyo recently unveiled new restrooms in public parks that aim to address those concerns.
Tokyo's Shibuya Station now equipped with anti-flooding facility
A newly-opened underground facility can hold up to 4,000 tons of rainwater.
Photo booths in Japan are seeing a resurgence decades after they were first introduced.
Shibuya's 'green frog' train tourist info center heading to Akita
The carriage will arrive in the birthplace of the famously loyal dog Hachiko on Thursday.
Japan Times 1995: Police storm jet, rescue hostages in Hokkaido
Riot police storm a hijacked All Nippon Airways jumbo jet in dramatic predawn rescue, rescuing 364 captives to end a nearly 16-hour standoff.
East Japan Railway Co. opened a new platform for its Saikyo Line for use Monday at Shibuya Station in Tokyo. The railway operator moved the Saikyo Line platform north by about 350 meters so that the new platform and the Yamanote Line platforms are positioned ...
Shibuya's Hachiko Square train car moving to Akita ahead of renovation
An old train car that has been used as a tourist information center outside Tokyo's busy Shibuya Station is being moved to the northeastern birthplace of Hachiko, the famously loyal dog immortalized by a nearby statue. The Tokyu Railways carriage, which was in service from ...
Japan tests new flight routes for Haneda Airport arrivals and departures
Aircraft flew low-altitude routes Sunday over central Tokyo, that are set to be introduced for flights into and out of Haneda Airport, the transport ministry has said. The flights operated between 4:20 p.m. and 6 p.m., to test out conditions for the new routes that ...