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TOURISM

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 30, 2017
New home-sharing law may give HomeAway the edge over rival Airbnb
Japan's home-sharing market is poised for a shift away from couch surfing toward professional services after the passage of a law regulating short-term rentals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 30, 2017
Airbnb's new premium service steps up competition with luxury hotels
Airbnb Inc. is close to launching a new service that will match guests with quality-inspected home and apartment rentals. The product is intended to attract higher-paying travelers who have yet to use Airbnb because they prefer the amenities guaranteed by fancy hotels, said three people familiar with...
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 27, 2017
Narrowed Trump travel ban could sow confusion in U.S. and abroad, experts say
The Supreme Court's criteria for who can be barred from entering the United States under President Donald Trump's travel ban may confuse the U.S. officials overseas charged with implementing it and trigger a new round of lawsuits, experts said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2017
Tokyo Metropolitan Government helping lesser-known areas attract tourists
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is trying to help parts of the country recovering from disasters by steering tourists who visit the capital toward those areas.
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Jun 25, 2017
Wakayama seeks to lift itself out of obscurity with fruit and gambling
In the Kansai region, known mostly for the cities of Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and Kobe, Wakayama Prefecture rarely tops the destination list of most tourists.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2017
95% of tourists to western Japan hope to return to explore less-trodden paths
Close to 95 percent of tourists from Asia who have visited western Japan would like to travel to areas off the beaten track, a survey showed Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2017
Foreign visitors to Japan reach 2.29 million, a record for May
The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan reached 2,294,700 last month, up 21.2 percent from a year earlier, the highest number ever for the month of May, the Japan Tourism Agency said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2017
Japan's tourism, real estate sectors actively seeking foreign workers
The nation's hotel operators and real estate firms are ramping up their hiring of foreign workers to capitalize on booming in-bound tourism and increasing property investment from wealthy overseas buyers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 18, 2017
Explicit porn pamphlets on display for all to see in Japan's hotels
This week's topic comes courtesy of M.J., who contacted Lifelines after her uncomfortable experience at a Tokyo hotel with her family.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 17, 2017
Luxury sleeper train Mizukaze departs from Osaka on first run
West Japan Railway Co. launched its latest tourist draw Saturday, a 10-coach luxury sleeper train called a "hotel on wheels."
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jun 9, 2017
In case you missed them: a year of responses to Community stories, part 2
The second in a series of selections of unpublished letters about Community stories from the previous year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 3, 2017
'Contents Tourism in Japan': How popular narratives drive people to 'sacred sites'
Japan is an extremely successful brand. It's also a tightly controlled one. The government wants lots of foreigners to visit its 2020 Tokyo Olympics, buy its Abenomics, experience the unmatched beauty of its four unique seasons and overlook its urban blight while searching for the few heritage sites...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2017
Diet enacts law to upgrade ports for cruise ship boom
The Diet enacted a law Friday for upgrading key ports across Japan to attract more tourists on cruise ships under joint efforts by the public and private sectors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 31, 2017
Targeting foreign tourists, Laox to acquire Kyoto taxi operator
Laox said Wednesday it will acquire a taxi operator in Kyoto in an effort to enhance its diversified customer services amid growing demand from foreign visitors.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 30, 2017
Magazine aims to attract more non-Japanese to Tokushima's Awa Odori festival
"The dancers are fools. The spectators are fools. Both are fools alike, so why not dance?"
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 29, 2017
BITPoint in talks to add bitcoin payments to outlets across Japan
BITPoint Japan, the company behind Peach Aviation's move to let travelers use bitcoin to pay for tickets, is planning to give hundreds of thousands of retail outlets the ability to accept the digital currency.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 26, 2017
U.S. bill would ban Americans from traveling to North Korea as tourists
Republican and Democratic U.S. congressmen introduced a bill on Thursday that would ban Americans from traveling to North Korea as tourists and require them to obtain special permission for other types of visits.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 24, 2017
Multilingual audio tourist guide app offered for Japan's Imperial sites
The Imperial Household Agency started offering a multilingual tourist guide using a smartphone application Tuesday in a bid to attract more foreign visitors to places with Imperial connections.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 23, 2017
Efforts afoot to turn abandoned rural train lines into tourist attractions
Abandoned rail lines once serving as lifelines for local industry are recapturing attention as tourist attractions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 19, 2017
Tourists top 10 million at record pace
Visitors to Japan passed the 10 million mark last Saturday, three weeks earlier than last year, Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Akihiko Tamura said Friday.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Paris Olympics kick off with rain-soaked — but grandiose — opening ceremony
Japan's 2024 Olympic team moves down the Seine River in Paris during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
By Alex K.T. Martin

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