Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
Japan has a new 3D-printed railway shelter, put together in just six hours, in a project that authorities hope will save services in remote locations thanks […]
A Japanese shrine in Tsushima City, Nagasaki, has announced it will no longer welcome non-worshipping visitors due to repeated incidents of bad behaviour by tourists, culminating […]
Japan is set to accelerate the introduction of an electronic travel authorisation that will require visitors from dozens of countries to apply for permission to travel […]
A month ahead of Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japanese firm Mitsubishi Jisho Design has erected its Mitsubishi Pavilion, the first building to greet East Gate visitors […]
Farmers in Japan’s prime northern dairy region of Hokkaido could soon be producing more than simply 50% of the nation’s milk, butter and cheese if a […]
In partnership with Bandai Namco Holdings Inc., Japan Airlines (JAL) has unveiled a new passenger aircraft as part of the “JAL×GUNDAM FLY TO THE FUTURE PROJECT”. This […]
Japan broke its tourism record in 2024, welcoming an estimated 36 million visitors, three million of whom were US citizens, according to one official’s estimate. As […]
Asia’s love of karaoke is now manifesting itself with an airport singalong booth to entertain passengers before they board their flight. Kyushu-Saga International Airport in southwest […]
Japan is increasingly battling with overtourism. The Japan National Tourism Organisation has recently revealed that 33.38 million people visited Japan between January and November 2024, breaking […]
Kyoto has proposed an increase in its tourist accommodation taxes in a bid to allay local concerns about the negative impacts of overtourism in the popular […]
With the number of Australian tourists visiting Japan surging, officials in the island empire have made a plea to their Pacific neighbours to be more adventurous […]
The Japanese company Asahi Shuzo, that brews the renowned Dassai sake, is planning on making a beverage in space. Only one small 100 milliliter bottle would […]
Flyers to Tokyo with Japan Airlines, and Tokyo residents tired of the crowding caused by overtourism, can now benefit from a new service that delivers air […]
Tales of overtourism in Japan are not vastly exaggerated, a recent survey of foreign visitors to the East Asian archipelago suggests, and guests in the country […]