It’s no Death Note, but apparently some social media users in Japan think cursing their valuables is an effective form of theft prevention. There’s also a widespread assumption on the part of many ...

I’ve never been the victim of it myself, but umbrella theft is a commonly heard complaint, though in all fairness, at least some of those “thefts” are accidental, owing to the profusion of nearly ...

Companies are finding ways to reuse umbrellas or rent them out as Japan goes through an alarming amount of them each year. About 120 million to 130 million umbrellas, roughly the population of Japan, ...

When the new US ambassador to Japan, John Roos, steps off the airplane in Tokyo, the first thing he might want to do is to reassure the Japanese people in public and the Japanese government in private ...