For the first Banyan Tree hotel in Japan, the international hospitality group could not have chosen a better location: the Higashiyama outpost neighbours the venerated Kiyomizu-dera temple, and ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Japan is rich in vibrant culture and Japanese base workers recently shared it with their U.S. counterparts at this airlift hub in western Tokyo. Hundreds of guests ...

When all was said and done, the Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake was the game that came out on top in Japan, with over 1.6 million physical game units sold. So, when you figure in the likely large ...

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The Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 hacking contest will focus on automotive technologies from January 22 to January 24 during the Automotive World conference in Tokyo, Japan. Hackers will target car ...

Microsoft has many good ideas for Windows 11 that often do not ship, and one of them was "Dynamic Wallpapers," which, as the name suggests, could have made the wallpaper dynamic, similar to third ...

The fish was sold to a Michelin-starred Japanese sushi restaurant chain for 207 million yen, the Onodera Group said in a statement about its winning bid. The first auction of the year at Tokyo’s ...

Sushi restaurateurs in Tokyo say they have paid 207m yen ($ ... at the annual new year auction at Toyosu Fish Market in the Japanese capital. Onodera Group, which had the winning bid, said the ...

Back in 2023, Japan mulled changing its tax-free shopping rules to help curb abuse by shoppers re-selling items with a markup after leaving the country. Currently, the Japanese tax-free shopping ...

It has an RTX 4050 under the hood, an entry-level card that can handle the Full HD resolution. Interestingly enough, the laptop can also hit a 144Hz refresh rate, which will require you to make ...

Japan has the third-largest economy by nominal gross domestic product and the fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. Tokyo is the country’s capital. Bitcoin in Japan has a notable ...

It’s hard to beat this price tag when it comes to a Lenovo laptop, and even at this price point, the IdeaPad 1 doesn’t hold back on features. It has a 15.6-inch HD display that’s great for ...