The two items that topped Nikkei Marketing Journal's annual rankings were not products per se but product attributes reflecting consumers' response to inflation.

The kanji for "teki" can be seen in many words, and it's a rather versatile one that works particularly well as a suffix.

Hit products of any given year are expected to change the direction of the market, carve out a completely new market segment or appeal to changing lifestyles with something innovative.

Facial recognition technology can be used to identify known criminals from a database as well as home in on a person acting suspiciously.

Residents of the metropolis are urged to make sure they’re fully prepared for when the dreaded “big one” strikes.

Shohei Ohtani’s performance this year has baseball fans excited and the tabloids brimming with new angles on the reasons for his success.

Japanese magazines are filled with stories of economic hardship as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida takes the reins of the country.

An ominous warning from a crime boss as he is sentenced gets the Japanese tabloids in a real stir.

Tokyo’s reputation as an expensive city was debunked by Diamond’s comparisons of prices for various consumer items in different cities around the world.

While journalists trapped in an Olympic bubble wrote a lot about how Japanese convenience stores came to their aid, the companies that run the stores have taken a hit in earnings.