The death of downtown is now a familiar refrain. Central business districts (CBDs) in cities around the world—once bustling centers of office work—were hit hard by the pandemic and the shift to remote ...

In Little Tokyo, the new year is heralded by the frenetic energy of thrumming taiko drums and pounding mallets, transfiguring rice into mochi. Known as Oshogatsu, the Japanese New Year is among the ...

Japanese police said a schoolboy was stabbed in the chest as he stepped out of his house to go to school Wednesday in a residential area of downtown Tokyo. A suspect was arrested at the scene. The ...

Wall paintings of Shohei Ohtani created by Los Angeles muralist Robert Vargas have recently been unveiled in the northeastern ...