I visited several Japanese arcades, aka game centers, in Tokyo’s Akihabara ward. Here’s some advice about how to get the most out of your visit to gamer’s paradise—and which arcade you shouldn’t miss.

Maiko Kurogouchi takes our reporter shopping in the city’s popular Aoyama district. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from Tokyo Maiko Kurogouchi moved to Tokyo from Nagano Prefecture about 20 years ago, ...

After a triumphant return to competition this weekend at the 2023 World Gymnastics Championships, Simone Biles admitted she wasn't sure this moment would ever come. Responding to a post on X, formerly ...

Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles is set to take the competitive stage later this summer in her first sanctioned event in nearly two years, officials said Wednesday. Organizers of the U.S. Classic ...

In 2021, as the COVID-19 Omicron variant was raging, chef Naoki Yoshida and his business partner Yusuke Motozawa wanted to do something to help Asian, and especially Japanese, businesses across ...

Kids and teens are now spending more time watching videos on TikTok than on YouTube. In fact, that’s been the case since June 2020 — the month when TikTok began to outrank YouTube in terms of the ...

After a year delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tokyo Olympics started at the end of July. In this edition, three new modalities debuted in the biggest competition in the world: 3x3 basketball, ...

No media experience of 2021 can compare to the jaunt I took across the world to cover the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. There was the endless array of tests just to leave Chicago, the 341-person plane ...

Groundbreaking Kpop act BTS had a banner year, sweeping up Guinness World Records, Billboard number ones and shattering Spotify streams with the support of their ultra-dedicated fanbase, the ...

Update 3:10 pm EST 12/19/2021: The Disney blackout on YouTube TV lasted less than two days. “We are pleased to announce that after a brief disruption, we have reached a new distribution agreement with ...

IN THE SUMMER of 1896 a carriage pulled into the town of Ronsperg in western Bohemia. It carried the new mistress of the castle, a young Japanese woman trained as a geisha who, by virtue of her ...