As famine grips Gaza under Israel’s blockade, drones drop cartons of cigarettes and hookah tobacco into the Strip.

New legislation seeks to stop tobacco companies from luring non-smoking teens into becoming addicted to their deadly produc ...

Nomura Holdings Inc.’s drive to cut the smoking rate among its staff is bearing fruit, pushing the firm closer to its goal of ...

Having conquered its home market, the Japanese toilet-maker Toto is selling more bidets in the United States. Toto’s president says not even tariffs will halt its advance.

Onosato Daiki became the first Japanese man in eight years to be named a yokozuna, or grand champion, the highest title in ...

Philip Morris is rolling out a heated tobacco product called IQOS in the U.S., concerning researchers and anti-tobacco ...

The South China Morning Post shared that prohibited girls' names may include “Jewel,” “Lovely,” “Kitty” and “Elsa,” while ...

Examples of kirakira names include Pikachu (from "Pokémon") Naiki (like the brand Nike), Kitty (Kitty Chan) and Pū (like ...

The local unit of Japan Tobacco International is bullish on the growth potential of Nordic Spirit, its oral nicotine product ...

Japan Tobacco International is open to producing its Ploom heated tobacco device in the United States, an executive told ...

In his yearslong quest to mass-produce and distribute his grandmother’s home-brewed Japanese barbecue sauce without pumping ...

By contrast, when KT&G introduced its HTPs under the ‘lil’ (a Little Is a Lot) brand name in November 2017, all the lil heat-sticks (Fiit) included capsules (menthol and bubble gum flavours; see ...