Despite putting up signs in multiple languages asking people to follow the rules, infractions – and complaints – haven’t let up. As a result, officials say they’ll set up a vinyl curtain, some 20 meters long and 2.5 meters high, to black out a popular photo spot for Mt. Fuji.
Common wisdom holds that there's a polite way to hold your backpack on a crowded train in Japan. But is common wisdom wrong? Here's why some in Japan argue that the front-facing backpack isn't as polite as it's claimed to be.
Minamoto no Sanetomo’s murder not only brought an end to the line of one of Japan’s great conquerers. It also helped usher in a war between the samurai and the emperor that would cement warrior power in Japan for more than six centuries to come.
In Japan, they say "the customer is god." Lately, more customers are acting like angry, wrathful gods - and one Japanese company says it's had enough. Here's how Japan Railways plans to fight a rising tide of harassment by customers.
One woman from Japan in a three-generation family of eight says this is her family’s third – and maybe last – trip to Hawaii. Instead of economizing to account for the weak yen, she says, “I raised the limit on my credit card.”