Japanese YEN depreciates below 155 against US Dollar for first time since 1990
The yen hit a new 34-year low against the US dollar on April 25, topping 155 yen per dollar for the first time since Jun...
read moreGodzilla to "attack" Tokyo in projection mapping
Godzilla is set to "attack" Tokyo in a projection mapping event at the metropolitan government's building starting late ...
read moreDoctors file lawsuit against Google over false online reviews
Across Japan, many people use online reviews to find businesses such as restaurants, beauty salons, and the like. Unfort...
read more"GOLDEN WEEK" - Travel tips in Japan
“Golden week” is a Japanese holiday period starting from the end of April to the beginning of May and one of the longest...
read moreMeta reacts to scam ads on its platforms
Fake ads and scams on Meta are serious in Japan. Many celebrities including a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur are furi...
read moreNew Travel option -Private compartments for Bullet train -Tokaido Shinkansen
Photo Credit JR TokaiCentral Japan Railway, or JR Tokai for short, announced on April 17 that it will set private compar...
read moreOsaka Expo's foreign pavilions to decrease to around 40
Osaka Governor Yoshimura Hirofumi said on April 16 that the number of foreign pavilions to be built independently by par...
read moreJapan probes Google on suspicion of antitrust violation
Japan's Fair Trade Commission has been probing Google on suspicion that the major US IT company may have violated the an...
read moreOpenAI launches first Asian office in Tokyo
US firm OpenAI, which develops conversational AI system such as ChatGPT, launched its first Asian office in Tokyo on Apr...
read moreTEPCO to start loading nuclear fuel into reactor in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Tokyo Electric Power Company will start loading nuclear fuel into the No. 7 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear po...
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