LIFESTYLE & TOURISM
Archive - 2022
US Hotel Companies are Accelerating their Investments in Tourism Facilities in Rural Japan

Marriott International of the United States will increase the number of hotels it operates in Japan by 30% from the current level to approximately 100 by the end of 2024...

Menicide (Bag Manufacturer in Tokyo) and TSUKUMO (Sandal Manufacturer) have Jointly Developed Flip-flops that Incorporate Japanese Paper as Material

Combining the manufacturing technology of a local factory, the product has been made into a highly unique product. The company plans to test-market the product through crowd-funding to raise small amounts of funds, with the aim of making it a standard product..

10% of those Interested in the "Metaverse” Own a VR Headset Device

According to a survey by Cross Marketing (Tokyo), about 10% of those interested in the "metaverse," a virtual space, owned a virtual reality (VR) headset device...

Japanese Government Relaxes Border Measures

The government will relax the border control for COVID-19 by October, bringing the situation closer to one before the spread of the virus...

DNP will Use VR and AR to Attract Foreigners to "Virtual Akihabara"

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) will attract people from other countries to "Virtual Akihabara," a metaverse space that reproduces the streets of Akihabara, Tokyo, utilizing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)...

Tokio Marine will Sell Insurance through Amazon

Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. will begin selling insurance through Amazon Japan's e-commerce site on 22nd...

NTT Designs a Virtual Venue for the Osaka Expo 2025

On 7th September, Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, the governing body for EXPO 2025 OSAKA, KANSAI, JAPAN announced that NTT will design a virtual reproduction of the Expo site in Osaka...

Use of Telemedicine is Increasing due to Seventh Wave of COVID-19

Capturing the demand to avoid face-to-face medical treatment due to infection risk, Medline and LINE systems had the highest single month of usage in August...

AEON Provides Same-day Delivery of Prescription Drugs

AEON will begin a service that delivers physician-prescribed medications to the home on the same day the order is placed...

Mos Food Services will Introduce Biomass Plastic Spoons and Forks Mixed with Rice

These spoons and forks will be offered as to-go tableware at "Mos Burger" stores in Tokyo and Osaka from August, and will be expanded to approximately 1,250 stores nationwide from October...

Can be Processed from Dried Soybeans to Meat Substitutes

Ryonetsu Kogyou (Ota-ku, Tokyo), a company that designs air conditioning systems, has developed a machine that can process whole soybeans into meat substitutes...

COVID-19 domestic infection, more than 110,000 people, the highest number ever

On July 16, the number of new cases of the novel coronavirus reached approximately 110,600 nationwide, the highest number ever recorded per day...

Ajinomoto works jointly with Mitsui to develop new products for "Generation Z" who are born after mid-1990s

Ajinomoto will launch a three-color "instagrammable" congee based on Taiwanese and Korean cuisine toward the end of June, proposing it as a guilt-free healthy snack...

With the Spring Relocation Season Upon Us, Moving Rates Are on the Rise

According to a private survey, moving costs for family households as of February were 10% higher than in the same month last year...

Nara and Wellness Tourism

Nara, Cradle of Kampo, Medicinal Herbs, and the History and Culture of Health...

Many supermarkets will switch spoons and forks offered free of charge from plastic to wooden

Supermarkets are switching from plastic to wooden cutlery, such as spoons and forks, which are given to customers when they buy lunch boxes...

Challenges Faced by Japan’s “ryokans (inns)”

Speaking of hot springs, they are “ryokan”. Ryokan is a wonderful culture and content that represents Japan...