Japan's social media-influenced youth have begun romanticizing an unknown vintage past as old-fashioned Showa-era cafes, featuring dimmed lighting and cozy furnishings, gain in popularity. It is a ...

Designed by the adjoining Sobokya Design Office ... mega-scale projects such as his Japan National Stadium or Shibuya Scramble Square. Wakuni Shoten, a new cafe showcasing the work of sheet ...

Japan’s largest maid cafe chain has partnered with a tech company to install AI-powered translation screens, enhancing the experience for foreign tourists and customers with hearing impairments.

The Mipig Cafe in fashionable Harajuku is among 10 such pig cafes the operator has opened around Japan. The first one opened in Tokyo in 2019. Two more are in the works for later this year.

TOKYO (SCMP): So-called Cuddle Cafes in Japan offer emotional companionship by allowing customers to hug with or gaze at strangers. The country’s strict social norms of self restraint and not ...