Minato, located close to the center of Tokyo, is one of the city’s wealthiest and most pleasant wards. During the Edo period, wealthy daimyo and samurai families chose the breezy, fertile hillsides ...

Tokyo is perhaps the most haphazardly arranged of the world's capitals, a place where flophouses nestle beside fashion boutiques, temples butt up against massage parlors and wildly disparate tribes ...

TOKYO (AP) — A group representing the homeless is asking to use the Athletes Village for next year’s Tokyo Olympics as a shelter during the coronavirus pandemic. An online petition addressed to Tokyo ...

TOKYO -- For the last 10 years I've been coming here annually to work, to live and to catch glimpses of the future. Arriving from London in the early 1990s, I got the sensation I was walking around in ...

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At 6:50 on Sunday evening (4:50 a.m. EST), my iPhone rang. The call was from Hitoshi Katanoda, a photographer friend who works for Polaris Images, a New York photo agency. Hitoshi and I had traveled ...

TOKYO (AP) — A group representing the homeless is asking to use the Athletes Village for next year's Tokyo Olympics as a shelter during the coronavirus pandemic. An online petition addressed to Tokyo ...

Safe and clean – yet rarely dull – Japan’s capital buzzes with energy and can be surprisingly affordable for those willing to adapt. Described by residents as a “mixture of many faces” and a “Disney ...