Days after announcing the news of her forthcoming 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift is dropping new breadcrumbs about the timeline behind it. The 34-year-old songstress resumed her Eras Tour in Tokyo, Japan on Feb. 7, revealing when she started working on Tortured Poets and how she’s been able to turn around … Read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) — If Taylor Swift is jetting from her upcoming Tokyo concert to Las Vegas to see boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl the next day, she’d better already have a place to park her plane. Places to leave private aircraft at airports in and around Las Vegas have been spoken … Read more
The Aozora Bank Ltd. headquarters in Tokyo Japan, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Japan’s Aozora Bank became the second lender in a span of hours to surprise investors with losses tied to US commercial property, sending shares down by the limit and heightening concern over global banks’ exposure to souring real estate bets. Akio Kon … Read more
The Tokyo government has been overwhelmed by interest in its new fertility subsidy program, one of several pilot programs across the country designed to address one of the lowest birth rates in the world. Read More: China Is Desperate to Boost Its Low Birth Rates. It May Have to Accept the New Normal More than … Read more
TOKYO — Governor Yuriko Koike was asked Tuesday to stop a disputed $2.45 billion project to convert a Tokyo park district, renowned for its rows of 100-year-old ginkgo trees, into a largely commercial area anchored around three skyscrapers. The plan for the Jingu Gaien area calls for razing a famous baseball stadium where Babe Ruth … Read more
Flag of Japan on dark blue background. 3D render Da-kuk | E+ | Getty Images Japan is stepping up efforts to ensure its listed companies become more efficient with capital allocation and increase shareholder returns this year. The operator of Tokyo’s stock exchange will release Monday, its first monthly list of public companies that have … Read more
Max has debuted the brand new trailer for the upcoming second season of Tokyo Vice! Ansel Elgort stars in the drama as journalist Jake Adelstein, whose real life, first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat has loosely inspired the show. Get more info and watch the trailer inside… Here’s a synopsis: Season two, filmed … Read more
A post-pandemic surge in international travelers, coupled with weak exchange rates, may have indirectly ended one of Japan’s most beloved travel deals: the Japan Rail Pass. Prices for the JR Pass, as it’s known, increased roughly 65%-75%, in October 2023. But there are still rail deals to be found — especially for those going beyond … Read more
Anderson Cooper found himself in fits of laughter during Sunday night’s CNN New Year’s Eve special, all thanks to John Mayer’s playful antics at a cat-filled establishment in Tokyo. Cooper, alongside his friend Andy Cohen, was co-hosting the annual broadcast when the 46-year-old musician made a brief appearance via video call. Mayer was situated in … Read more
This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024. A Japan Airlines plane was in flames on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on January 2 after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft, television reports said. (Photo by JIJI … Read more