Soaring property costs, foreign investment and scarce supply are reshaping who can afford to live in central Tokyo.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"With Japan having signed the trade agreement and the president ... told Reuters outside a busy train station in downtown Tokyo on Sunday. (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi, Nobuhiro Kubo, Makiko Yamazaki, ...