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.
On 1 October 1964, just nine days before the Tokyo Olympics, a games that would mark post-war Japan’s re-emergence on the world stage, the Japanese Shinkansen or bullet […]
Japan Airlines (JAL) has introduced a limited time offer, giving international travellers free domestic flights to discover more of the land of the rising sun. Currently, […]
A discovery by a team of Japanese scientists is being hailed as the possible answer to the development of futuristic shape-shifting aircraft. The idea of an […]
Japan ranks among the most visited countries in the world, having reached a record 17.78 million visitors in the first half of 2024. Citizens from 71 […]
One of the simplest deterrents to overtourism and bad visitor behaviour seen this year has been deemed successful; so successful that it has become unnecessary. Background […]
A pair of scissors that went missing in a store located close to the boarding gates at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport in Japan have caused 36 flight […]
Since its reopening to international travellers in the fall of 2022, Japan is experiencing a tourism boom. The weak local currency, which has dropped a third […]
Japan smashed through its monthly and half-yearly records for foreign visitor arrivals in June, new data from the country’s tourism agency shows. According to the Japan […]
In 500 years’ time everyone in Japan will have the same surname, a Japanese demographics expert has predicted. Professor Hiroshi Yoshida, a researcher in the impact […]
Like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, a Japanese dating app with a difference is hooking people up with their perfect partner – created by […]
In an unofficial move to protect local clientele from overtourism in Japan, some restaurants and attractions have begun charging tourist customers more than their regulars. The […]
Mount Fuji is undoubtedly an emblem of Japan, attracting tens of thousands of people each year. But now, as tourism continues to re-establish in the post-Covid era, […]
A rare and deadly disease is surging in Japan and experts are stumped about the reason why. The deadly virus has infected a record-breaking number of […]
With Japan’s birthrate at an all-time low, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is working on an app called “Tokyo Futari Story” or “Tokyo Couple Story”. The app is expected […]
Another Japanese town is taking action to prevent tourists from causing problems while trying to photograph views of nearby Mount Fuji. Last month, Fujikawaguchiko, in the […]