It's possibly every traveler's worst nightmare: that perfect, affordable Airbnb you booked gets unexpectedly cancelled. Now it's the headache facing thousands of visitors to Japan, with Airbnb forced ...

Japan last year attracted a record 28.7 million visitors from overseas, and a tourism drive is aiming to push that to 40 million by 2020 when the Olympics comes to town. As pressure increases on ...

On Tuesday, Condé Nast Traveler reader Jennifer Chisholm wrote to us about an upcoming trip to Tokyo that seemed to have fallen apart. Her Airbnb listing had disappeared from the site. She wasn't ...

CCC is the owner of the Tsutaya retail chain, which began as a bookstore in Osaka in 1983. It later introduced the concept of video and CD rental to Japan. CCC's business has grown to include high-end ...

Airbnb may be facing regulatory hurdles all around the world, but that’s not stopping copycats and competitors from trying their own luck at disrupting the hospitality industry. The latest player to ...

Aileen Jeffery arrived in Tokyo two years ago and spotted what she thought was the best opportunity of her career: Hotel rooms in Japan’s capital were scarce and a boom in tourism was exacerbating the ...

Photo Credit: From left to right: Yasuyuki Tanabe, head of Airbnb Japan, Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder of Airbnb, and Muneaki Masuda, representative director president and CEO of Culture Convenience ...

Stuff your face with onigiris as you pick up your keys from one of the many Family Marts lining Tokyo’s streets. Zoey is CNET's Asia News Reporter based in Singapore. She prefers variety to monotony ...