It's one of the hottest new trends in Japan: Bars without booze. Raising glasses of non-alcoholic wine, millennial customers say they do enjoy the real thing, but only on special occasions. "I'm not ...

Japan's Tenshoku Sodan Bar, where all bartenders are career counselors, gives free drinks and career advice to those considering quitting their jobs.

Go for a walk around most major train stations in Japan, and you’ll see a lot of bars. There are izakaya, pubs with a wide assortment of small side dishes to munch on as you drink. There are wine bars ...

From precise ice to the vinyl revival, we owe more to Japanese bars than you might expect. And a century-old cocktail manual is partly responsible.

Bar Japonais had only been open about a year and a half when it shut down for a rebrand. The 14th Street restaurant was initially billed as a French-Japanese izakaya with a lot of fusion dishes and ...

Tokyo is a city filled with tiny spaces, so it’s not unusual for bars or restaurants to have room for a dozen patrons or fewer. But Hitori, a bar in the chic Shinjuku district, stands out from the ...