Tokyo is perhaps the most haphazardly arranged of the world's capitals, a place where flophouses nestle beside fashion boutiques, temples butt up against massage parlors and wildly disparate tribes ...

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Londoner Holly Graham moved to Asia the day after she turned 24. She lived in Thailand, South Korea, and Hong Kong, with her career shifting from teaching to writing to bartending. In her mid-30s, she ...

Located deep in Setagaya, the Buddhist Gotokuji Temple is also known as the cat temple for the hundreds of adorable maneki nekos figures (or beckoning cats) that can be found throughout the area, ...

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's April 7 state of emergency declaration over the novel coronavirus pandemic has put poor Tokyoites living at internet and manga cafes on edge. The reason: ...