In Japan, 10% unlikely to take year-end or New Year's holidays
A survey has found that 10.6 percent of the nation's workers will likely be unable to take even a single day off during the nine-day year-end and New Year's holiday period from Saturday to Jan. 5. The proportion of respondents who can possibly take all ...
How Thomas Cook's 'excursions' lost their way
The 19th century concept of holiday travel is beginning to come apart.
Texans lineman Christian Covington recounts memorable spring vacation in Japan
Japan treated Christian Covington as well as he could have hoped. The Houston Texans defensive lineman took a private trip here along with a few friends, including former Rice University teammates, earlier this month. All of them agreed they had a blast during their stay in ...
Ryanair Holdings PLC pilots campaigning for unionization amid a staffing crisis that's led to the cancellation of 20,000 flights have been offered financial backing from American Airlines Group Inc.'s cockpit-crew association. The Allied Pilots Association has offered to support Ryanair crews in forming a union ...
Avoiding the crowds during Golden Week
Let's be sensible: During Golden Week, why on earth would any sane person choose to drive to a destination on the expressway only to spend a good part of their holiday ensnared in a 35-km-long traffic jam? Doing their part to ease the congestion, ...
Nagoya: What was your best holiday ever, and why?
South Korea. I have many Korean friends and I love going to Seoul. It is a wonderful city for shopping, eating and pampering yourself. Some of the food is rather like delicacies you can find in Japan, yet subtly different, such as tok, their ...
Japan, you look like you could use a long vacation
Travel agencies are banking on fact that possible power shortages in Japan this summer will inspire people to take longer vacations.
'GeGeGe' birthplace becomes tourist magnet
Inspired by TV series and a movie about cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki and his wife, tourists flock to the birthplace of "Gegege no Kitaro."
Japan by the numbers (3.12.10)
Surveys say ... Holmes is hotter but Watson (or a government worker) would make a better husband.
Do your part and take a vacation
Japan tends to vacation en masse at the same times annually, which isn't great for an ailing tourism industry.
