One of the perks of Smith's job was that her employer was able to secure her an apartment before she even got to Japan. It's ...

One of the perks of Smith's job was that her employer was able to secure her an apartment before she even got to Japan. It's a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with a balcony that rents for 35,000 ...

Jordan, 48, moved from Vancouver, Canada, to Japan to teach English over 20 years ago. After a decade of living in an old house built in the '80s, he demolished it and built a new one for his family.

Byron and Kaori Nagy have fully renovated a 150-year-old unoccupied farmhouse an hour outside Tokyo. Byron, who's originally from New Jersey, also created a farm on land nearby. They've also spent ...

There are few countries as dedicated to embedding philosophies of beauty into all aspects of culture as Japan, where the influential concepts of wabi-sabi (a reverence for patina and transience), ...

NOSTALGIC TRAIN, a “heartrending, mysterious first-person adventure / walking simulator” set in the Japanese countryside, will launch for PC via Steam on June 13 in Japan for 2,000 yen, developer ...

Daisuke Kajiyama and his late wife, Hila, spent two years restoring an abandoned traditional Japanese house. The couple turned the 96-year-old wooden home into a quaint guesthouse in Shizuoka ...

She left France and moved to Japan alone to restore the property and start her own real-estate consultancy. "It's been three years now, but it still feels like a dream," Aguirre said. Coline Aguirre ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

A COSMONAUT SAT for most of the winter on a platform at Kazusa-Murakami station in Chiba, a rural Japanese prefecture next to Tokyo. As they waited for trains, local grandmothers would chat with the ...

Hours outside Tokyo, a onetime Panasonic motor research developer is working to fulfill his childhood dream of building working exoskeletons, and has the potential to help millions in manufacturing in ...