Four years ago, when Katsumi and Wakana Kobayashi moved into their one-bedroom apartment in Japan’s Nagano prefecture, they ...

TOKYO -- Apartment-style hotels equipped with kitchens and laundry machines are cropping up in Japan to cater to the growing number of international tourists who stay for a week or more.

Looking for a place to rent can be stressful, and requesting tours (without knowing when or if you’ll be granted one—and whether it will even work with your schedule if you are) certainly doesn’t help ...

In an oversized, wood-paneled boardroom with a view of Tokyo's Imperial Palace, Tsubasa Yokote is trying to explain the ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – One of the Department of Defense’s top housing officials recently completed a weeklong, multi-stop tour of homes and barracks at U.S. military installations across Japan. Patricia ...