It’s one of the hottest new trends in Japan: Bars without booze. Raising glasses of non-alcoholic wine, millennial customers say they do enjoy the real thing, but only on special occasions. “I’m not ...

Some 100,000 of these small dives are hidden in plain sight across Japan. Now, travellers are finally discovering these locals-only hangouts – and the beloved "mamas" who run them. I didn't plan on ...

With the opening of new Japanese-style bar 5Tesseract, chef Billy Kin put in the same hands-on attention to detail he’s known for at his omakase counter 5Kinokawa. Kin built the two walnut tables that ...

Four years ago, Jerome Ito started searching for a space where he could fill what felt like a void on the Peninsula: a ...