International tourism to Japan has exploded in recent years, and while the official figure for 2024 is yet to be released it is now certain to be a new record in excess of the 31.9 million who ...

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Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji, a mold that’s long been used in Japan for starting fermentation.Credit...Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon ...

If you aren’t used to slinging gears yourself, the GR Corolla’s new-for-2025 automatic transmission option makes the impressively comfortable and quick super hatch even more approachable ...

Severe cases may require medical intervention. This is the FDA's fourth oyster recall in three weeks, reflecting an alarming increase in norovirus outbreaks across the nation. The U.S. Centers for ...

The Food and Drug Administration issued an oyster recall Thursday—its fourth in three weeks, after hundreds have been left sick—warning against the eating of certain oysters harvested in ...

The federal government promised to "pilot a new automatic [tax] filing service" in 2024 to help get benefits to low- and fixed-income Canadians — but ended up recycling a program from the year ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...

Snouder’s, at West Main and South streets, opened in 1884 and was Oyster Bay’s longest continuously run business. Three years later, it became the site of Oyster Bay’s first telephone ...