The death of downtown is now a familiar refrain. Central business districts (CBDs) in cities around the world—once bustling centers of office work—were hit hard by the pandemic and the shift to remote ...

The Shinjuku ward in downtown Tokyo with Izakaya restaurants at night. Sushi. Ramen. Wagyu. Kaiseki. The must-eat list for Tokyo is a mile long. In two decades of living here, I’ve tried much of what ...

Apple today opened a new store in the United Arab Emirates, at the Al Jimi Mall in Al Ain. Apple Al Jimi Mall Apple Al Jimi ...

Shinjuku train station right before the shutters come down at 11 p.m., in corridors where “salarymen” rushing home and couples on late-night dates have just passed by. Dozens of homeless people ...

TOKYO — More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown ...

Portland, Oregon, has used a “Poopmaster 6000” — a street-scrubber similar to a hockey-rink Zamboni — to scour crow droppings from that city’s sidewalks. Tokyo, Japan, has tightened rules on its ...