Google has refined Google Maps in Japan to show make navigation easier in the country, where most roads don’t have names. The new design seemingly brings the Japanese characters more to the ...

You can also use the camera icon in the search bar in Google Maps to 3D-style scan your surroundings to find points of ...

This month, Associate Editor Mariella Moon humblebrags about her vacation to Japan. But that's not what she's going to discuss. Hailing from a country where Google Maps is lacking in detail (and ...

In March, Google Maps AR navigation was updated to work inside complex buildings. After launching in some US malls, Google is expanding Indoor Live View to transit stations in Japan.

While Google Maps has had simple icons for things like restaurants and stores before, Japanese businesses can now list themselves as one of over 1,000 categories in 19 languages: Arabic, Basque ...

This month, Associate Editor Mariella Moon humblebrags about her vacation to Japan. But that's not what she's going to discuss. Hailing from a country where Google Maps is lacking in detail (and ...

There's troubling news in Japan today, after Google was forced to remove two critical customer reviews from its Google Maps service.

Technicians from the tourism board used 360-degree cameras to shoot the cat maps. The interactive map looks almost identical to Google street map, except it's all in Japanese.