Married couple Alex Tong and Kimmie Chang opened their second Hamilton County restaurant, Okonori Japanese High Kitchen, in Carmel two months ago. Chang’s company, Unik Works, has designed nine other ...

Japan Post Holdings said Friday that a record low number of New Year greeting postcards (nengajo) were delivered nationwide on Jan 1, marking the 17th consecutive year of decline. Japan Post said ...

The USPS said a postmark reflects the date an envelope is first processed by an automated USPS sorting machine. Need to make sure a postmark reflects the day you dropped it off? Here's how. Shipping ...

When he first went to Japan, in 2024, Jack Cotas explored Shibuya, ate Kobe beef and did other normal tourist stuff. But his return trip this past November had a unique agenda: The 29-year-old ...

Nov. 21 (UPI) --The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi approved $112 billion worth of measures to stimulate the economy on Friday, the largest such package since the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an age of voice-driven fiction, the phrase “novel of ideas” has an unavoidably dusty ring. It summons the drowsy cadence of the philosopher, the tedious rehearsal of concepts on loan from ...

Exactly 85 years ago — in August, 1940, a year after the beginning of World War II — 30-year-old Meyer Zucker received a visa from the Japanese consulate in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It allowed him ...

Iconic Nickelodeon Cartoon Is Getting Its Own Forever Stamp originally appeared on Parade. If you look back at all of the infamous characters that have crossed our TV screens thanks to Nickelodeon, it ...

Japanese eki stamps (station stamps) are a charming feature of Japanese railway culture. Beloved by visitors and oshi-tetsu (train-stamp nerds) alike, collecting them as you make your way around Japan ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Now ubiquitous in many of Japan’s 9,000 stations, the first eki stamp appeared in 1931 at Fukui station near the Sea of Japan coast, ...