Japan's summer holiday travel rush got underway Saturday, with many shinkansen bullet train services and flights fully booked as people returned to their hometowns or set off on domestic and overseas ...

High temperatures during the Tokyo Olympics have been making headlines around the world. In fact, the event may go down as one of the hottest and most humid in the history of the Games. Last week, ...

Overseas trips from Japan are expected to decrease by 8.8 percent to a cumulative 2.17 million for this year's summer holiday ...

The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) says that American visitor arrivals to Japan is up 3.6 percent year-to-date in 2023 over the same period (January to April) in 2019—a year that broke the ...

Niseko, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, is known for its world-class skiing. But it’s also a great adventure destination in the summer months, too. Niseko is synonymous with skiing, but if you ...

As summer temperatures approach 90 degrees, restaurants boast their outdoor patios and decks, and Americans pull out their biggest knives to hack through watermelons and cantaloupe, the Japanese fill ...

I hate summer in Japan with a passion that burns as hot as the season itself, or at least I would if the heat and humidity didn’t sap away all my energy. I realize, having grown up with milder summers ...