After dark, standing in a 24-hour convenience store in downtown Kyoto, I scanned the rows of canned and bottled beers in a bright refrigerated case. Virtually everything on offer was a product of one ...

In recent years, the Japanese government has sought to draft and enact new legislation to regulate the acquisition and use of Japanese land with implications for national security. Currently, there ...

Land-constrained Japan is currently seeing a larger number of utility scale solar projects being built in mountainous areas, due to lack of available flat land and increasing measures to limit the ...

Japan’s three major metropolitan areas surrounding Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya showed a 4.3% gain in land prices, up for the fourth straight year. Those of the four major regional cities of Sapporo, ...

Once upon a time, goes a story, there was an Emperor who was particularly fond of cherries. When he discovered one day that the sparrows were eating his cherries, he decreed that all sparrows must be ...

The US military this month will return to Japan’s government more than 9,800 acres of land it has held since World War II, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Tuesday. The 9,852 acres of land on the ...

TOKYO, March 22 (Reuters) - Japanese land prices rebounded in 2021, after a drop in the previous year, as the property market recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic's hit to the economy, a government ...

Where going green is almost a sense of duty. April 28, 2007 — -- An environmentally friendly bio-gasoline went on sale at 50 gas stations in Tokyo on Friday. The Japanese plan to offer the fuel ...

THE tsunami of 2011 left gaping holes reminiscent of war zones in the landscape along the coast of Tohuku, in the north-east of Honshu, Japan’s main island. Car navigation systems gave directions to ...