It's one of the hottest new trends in Japan: Bars without booze. Raising glasses of non-alcoholic wine, millennial customers say they do enjoy the real thing, but only on special occasions. "I'm not ...

Tokyo might be the nation’s capital but nowhere in Japan does a better night out than Osaka – or a more varied one. Here the ...

A Japanese social worker opened an unconventional daytime bar nicknamed “It is OK to be useless” to offer comfort to those experiencing significant social pressure. Operating about five days a month ...

Tokyo is a city filled with tiny spaces, so it’s not unusual for bars or restaurants to have room for a dozen patrons or fewer. But Hitori, a bar in the chic Shinjuku district, stands out from the ...