Visiting a hot spring or sento public bath is a literal immersion in a bathing culture that has lasted more than a millennium ...

Japan is planning to tighten its immigration rules to crack down on the issue of foreign tourists leaving without paying their medical bills, according to media reports. The new policy could force ...

The state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism reported Thursday that in April, as many as 52, 358 visitors from Japan came to Hawaii, an increase of 3.4 % from April 2024 but ...

An American tourist was arrested in Japan for allegedly defacing a traditional wooden gate at a famous Tokyo shrine by etching letters on it, police said on Thursday. Steve Hayes, a 65-year-old ...

TOKYO — An American tourist has been arrested in Japan and accused of carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo. Steve Lee Hayes, 65, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

Tourism has become a priority in Japan’s economic growth strategy. The pandemic blunted that effort, but when the Kishida Cabinet lifted its restrictions on foreigners entering Japan in 2022 ...

Japan has joined the U.S. Global Entry program as a partner country, giving Japanese citizens access to expedited customs and immigration processing when arriving to the United States, U.S. Customs ...

According to government data, 9.3 million people visited Nara in 2022. Japan has been coping with a significant influx of tourists since it reopened post-pandemic. March, April and May of this ...

Nicolle Saroukos, a 25-year-old Australian resident from Southwest Sydney, was recently denied entry into Hawaii, imprisoned overnight at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu, and then deported.

An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo. Steve Lee Hayes, 65, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of property ...

Last year, a tourist was arrested after being caught on video defacing the wall of the colosseum in Rome by carving a love note into it. In 2017, Thai authorities fined two American tourists for ...