Tourists visiting Japan should consider that the cultural norms may be very different than what they're used to back home, especially when riding the metro.

It’s a hot, sticky summer in Japan this year, and that’s actually a fitting description of pretty much every summer in Japan for the past few generations. But while high temperatures and high humidity ...

In brief: In what is the perfect illustration of how the world has changed over the last two and a half decades, Japan has stopped measuring crowding on trains using a peculiar metric: how easy it is ...