"Overtourism" during Japan's iconic blossom season makes life for locals in Fujiyoshida town unmanageable, authorities say.

TOKYO >> The annual number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2025 reached the 40 million mark for the first time, breaking the ...

Authorities scrap Arakurayama Sengen park cherry blossom festival near Mount Fuji because of tourists trespassing, littering and ‘defecating in private yards’ ...

A Japanese city is cancelling its annual cherry blossom viewing festival after poor behavior from tourists put the town into ...

Japan saw its post-pandemic tourism boom reach new heights in 2025, comfortably breaking the record it set last year.

An end-of-year survey conducted by ShapeWin, a Japanese PR and digital communications agency, finds that American tourists to ...

JTB CEO discusses strategies to alleviate congestion in major cities by promoting Japan's beautiful regional areas for ...

TOKYO – The Japan Tourism Agency plans to increase the number of regions taking steps to address overtourism from the current 47 to 100 as a new effort to strengthen measures against overtourism. The ...

Tokyo’s Tsukiji Outer Market has asked tour operators to avoid year-end visits amid dangerous overcrowding, highlighting Japan’s wider overtourism debate. As inbound tourism surges post-pandemic, ...

South Korea is set to overtake Japan as the top overseas destination for Chinese travelers this Lunar New Year, a sharp reversal in regional tourism patterns.