STAR-ADVERTISER / APRIL 27 Japanese tourists wait at a crosswalk light along Kalakaua Avenue during Golden Week, the traditional peak Japanese travel season, which starts April 29 and runs through ...

From Tuesday, Japan will reinstate visa-free travel to dozens of countries, ending some of world's strictest border controls to slow the spread of COVID-19. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is ...

Hawaii tourism Japan Managing Director Eric Takahata said high fuel surcharges, unfavorable exchange rates, ... said the slow return of visitors from Japan has hurt retailers.

TOKYO — It may not seem like rapper Kanye West, actor Tom Cruise and the K-pop stars of Super Junior have much in common. But they do in Japan: They are among the parade of foreign entertainers ...

Japan, the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China contracted at an annualized rate of 6.3% in the October-December quarter, worse than economists’ forecast of a 3.9% contraction.

Japan kept its assessment of the economy unchanged in February as consumer spending remained on a recovery trend despite soft exports and factory output due to the global economic slowdown.

Eric Takahata, managing director of HTA marketing arm Hawai‘i Tourism Japan, said Hawaii is expected to finish 2024 with about 700,000 arrivals from Japan — not quite half of the more than 1.5 ...