Sushi, ramen, udon, okonomiyaki, yakiniku, tonkatsu, yakitori ... are you hungry for Japanese food yet? There are almost 400 ...

Google has refined Google Maps in Japan to show make navigation easier in the country, where most roads don’t have names. The new design seemingly brings the Japanese characters more to the forefront ...

The Google Maps’ view of what Japan calls Takeshima, South Korea calls Dokdo and Google calls Liancourt Rocks. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member ...

Google Maps has been updated with new imagery of the northeastern coast of Japan for the one year anniversary of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami that destroyed much of the area. With t Google Maps ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. One of the greatest pieces of advice someone gave me about travelling in Japan was to never use ...

This month, Associate Editor Mariella Moon humblebrags about her vacation to Japan. But that's not what she's going to discuss. Hailing from a country where Google Maps is lacking in detail (and metro ...

It started with a Google+ Community called ‘Tokyo Slide Map’. A group of users wanted to chronicle the very best children’s slides dotted across the capital of Japan by uploading geotagged photos of ...

A dog in Japan earned his 15 minutes of fame when he was captured on Google Street View fearlessly chasing the tech company’s Street View car down the road. The canine, from the district of Kumage in ...

If you’ve ever tried getting around when traveling in a country with an unfamiliar language, you might have had trouble figuring out what all the businesses around you are, even if you could read the ...