Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China’s dispute with Tokyo ...

One of the more enjoyable things about covering tiny houses is seeing each country's take on the art of downsizing. The ...

Set on an oddly shaped, and extremely narrow plot commonly called a ‘Flagpole’ plot in Japan, Flagpole in Nakameguro tiny ...

It’s really detailed — everything from the making of the cocktail until it ends up in your hand,” the bar’s owner said.

Two friends started AkiyaMart as a Zillow-like website to search for homes in Japan. They now own 6 homes in Japan, but the ...

The Yamabiko is small, even by tiny house standards. Yet despite its modest length of 6.6 m (21.6 ft), this clever model somehow manages to squeeze in not just one but two separate layouts, each ...

In 2013 Yukihiro Akama found some small blocks of oak behind the house in northern England where his family was living at the time. Trained as an architect in his native Japan, he began carving ...

Fukasawa, a residential area in south-west Tokyo, is quietly known for its architectural charm, with typically small buildings lining narrow-fronted deep plots. It is also defined by its connection to ...

Trump wants Japan’s pint-size kei-cars legalized in the U.S., igniting hype as America wonders if cute, efficient cars could actually reshape the market. It looks like Europe isn’t the only continent ...

Efforts to redevelop a historically significant house in the Philippines to memorialize local women abused there by Japanese soldiers during World War II are facing funding and logistical hurdles, ...

It’s been less than a year into the second Trump administration, and to many outside observers, US government policies appear confusing or incoherent. Yesterday provided a good example from the ...