Booming numbers of foreign visitors to Japan are driving up prices at restaurants near tourist spots, as a weaker yen makes the country a bargain destination and local wages struggle to keep up with a ...
All is quiet at 10:30 a.m. on a Thursday in Shibuya, Tokyo’s famous commercial district. In an alleyway just steps from one of the busiest train stations in the world, a short line of tourists huddles ...
As a train trundles north from the Japanese capital, through the nondescript concrete of greater Tokyo, you might catch a whiff of churrasco or a few bars of samba emanating from ÅŒizumi. Following ...