The Latest Breaking News from Japan

Ramen restaurants also struggling as Japan’s culinary landscape faces economic challenges and changing customer behaviour

Japanese PC accessory Ainex offers a copper AM5 plate guard to prevent you from messing up your PC build with too much thermal paste.

Maria Grazia Chiuri will be taking her designs to Kyoto, more specifically the garden of Tō-ji Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Satoshi Kuwata’s on-the-rise label Setchu, which won the LVMH Prize for Young Designers in 2023, is the culmination of a career that has seen him work for labels like Givenchy and Gareth Pugh, alongside London’s famed Savile Row

Never smart to go against Nintendo

Japan's Fuji Television said it will open an investigation into a high-profile sex scandal linked to one of the country's top celebrities

Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not even gonna try to hide my bias here—I love Yamaha. Over the years, I’ve owned a number of tuning fork bikes: three MT-07s, an MT-10, a Yamaha scooter, and right now, I’m head over heels for my XSR900—a bike I ride pretty much…

The Franz Ferdinand leader rarely gets to talk guitars. He shares his love of vintage Japanese instruments, explains the process of demoing, looping and mic’ing on new album The Human Fear – and reveals why the secret to studio success is that there’s no secret

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast

Sou Fujimoto has been masterminding the upcoming Expo 2025 Osaka for the past five years, as the site’s design producer. To mark the 2025 Wallpaper* Design Awards, the Japanese architect talks to us about 2024, the year ahead, and materiality, nature, diversity and technological advances

Sumo is facing a potential chasm at the top of the ancient sport for the first time in over 30 years after the only yokozuna, Terunofuji, announced his retirement on Friday.