YOKOHAMA, Japan -- The Shonan coast southwest of Tokyo is quietly evolving from a casual respite from the big city into a luxury weekend hideaway as chic boutique hotels pop up across the area.

Forget the glossy brochures and the long, serpentine theme park queues. Forget Mickey Mouse, Ginza flagships, or cosplay go-karts weaving through traffic. This isn’t that Tokyo. This is the Tokyo ...

A manga’s eerie prophecy predicting a July 5 quake has triggered mass panic in Japan, crashing tourism, cancelling flights, ...

A rumor claiming that a devastating earthquake would strike Japan on Saturday (July 5) has recently gone viral on social media, drawing widespread attention. As a result, many foreign tourists have ...