Ramen Chain Looks Outside Japan for Noodle-Powered Growth
To bring savory noodles to locales around the world, the operator of ramen chain Ippudo has had to adapt one of Japan’s best-known specialties. It took almost half a year to get the rich to…
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Making Tokyo Beautiful for Olympics May Cost $6.8 Billion
The company known as Tepco, which faces $144 billion in clean up costs for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, has been assigned with removing hundreds of thousands of utility poles across Tokyo so …
Singapore Tops Tokyo as Asia's City With Best Quality of Living
Singapore tops the ranks in Asia as the city with the best quality of living, well ahead of Tokyo and Hong Kong because of its efficient infrastructure. The city-state gained one spot from …
Olympic Housing Boom Fades Before Tokyo Games Even Begin
Evidence is mounting that Tokyo’s housing boom is nearing an end. In the Kachidoki area facing Tokyo Bay, home to the city’s hottest market given its proximity to venues for the 2020 Olympic Gam…
Lost Sleep Is Costing Japan's Economy Billions
Sleep deprivation is doing more harm in Japan than just making people grumpy and unhealthy. It is also holding back the world’s third-largest economy. The problem has been getting worse in …
Japan's Rural Towns Are Luring Tax From Tokyo With Beef and Beer
Want a free case of craft beer? If you send 30,000 yen ($260) or more of your taxes to the town of Yamanouchi in Nagano prefecture, they’ll send you 24 bottles of a locally brewed beer to say thanks.…