In 2019, Japan enjoyed its highest foreign visitor numbers on record, rounding off a ten year period of growth in the nation’s tourism sector. Japan’s 2019 Tourist Travel Boom in Numbers 1. The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a 12 month ...

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For many, a smart city begins with technology. In Japan, it starts with a person. In local lore “customer is god,” and the customers of any city are its people. In the Japanese sense, being smart when approaching city planning and development means ...

Violent changes in the atmosphere associated with extreme weather phenomena caused some of the deadliest disasters this year. In 2019, several meteorological disasters affected the planet, from historical cities experiencing record flood levels to ...

Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country's use of the death penalty. One of the three, Yasutaka Fujishiro, was convicted of killing seven people and ...