There are numerous announcements of the formation of funds and incubation facilities for Japanese start-ups.

Those of us who are resident foreigners in Japan will have some big changes coming up on July 9th.

According to the Japan Fitness Association, fitness is a big business, with 3.95m members of fitness clubs in 2009.

Tokyo University (Todai) announced that it would change the start of the university year from spring to fall.

If your email account gets disabled by ATT, you can't get help online because you need to log-in.

Low-cost Carrier Peach Aviation will start flying domestic legs at greatly reduced rates over existing airlines.

Bicycle maker Asahi predicted it would close its FY2011 in February with a massive increase in profits.

The rate of vacant offices has been rising steadily, with a surplus in large floor space buildings and also overall.

Late last year it was revealed that Tabelog rankings had in fact been manipulated by online advertising companies.

Trade and diplomacy between Vietnam and Japan is running at an all-time high, and Vietnam is booming economically.