For rooms costing between 20,000 and 50,000 yen ($127-317) per night, visitors will now see their tax double to 1,000 yen ($6 ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and before the cherry blossom ...

Authorities in Kyoto announced today plans for a big hike in hotel lodging taxes, as Japan’s picture-perfect ancient capital ...

Some 4,600 new adults dressed in flashy kimonos and other attire attended a coming-of-age ceremony here on Jan. 12, one day ...

Thousands of young people in the Japanese city of Yokohama attended the Coming of Age ceremony on Monday to mark the start of their adulthood. Coming of Age Day, observed annually on the second Monday ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and before the cherry blossom ...

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

In the latest edition of The Dispatch, our columnist visits the Paris studio of the inimitable artist, who likes to live her ...

Wode Maya was in the home of TK a Voltarian millionaire and made a vlog of the grand edifice which has gone viral on social ...