My first experience eating at a conveyor belt sushi restaurant in Japan ended in disaster. I’d been gleefully helping myself to plates of nigiri as they trundled by on the narrow belt that zig-zagged ...

In a recent meeting of Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the group unveiled plans to combat its transportation and logistics sector labor shortages with construction of ...

China’s so-called Belt and Road initiative has been the subject of relentless media coverage. But Beijing’s flagship program of outward investment in several ways has been outmatched by Japan’s ...

Japanese conveyor-belt sushi chain Sushiro has been building a strong following in China despite Beijing's total ban on Japanese seafood imports, with its affordable prices appealing to ...

Having recently met President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has once again expressed interest in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), thus renewing ...