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Top economists remained divided Monday over whether Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” policies will bear fruit but all saw eye-to-eye on the need for deregulation and new growth strategies. “You can only buy so much time with monetary policies,” Yuichi Kodama, chief economist at ...
Keeping track of your assets Money Forward is a personal financial asset management service (in Japanese) that works similar to the U.S.-based service Mint.com. With more than 160 partners including banks, credit-card companies and mobile carriers, the service automatically pulls all your financial information ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday — and the real party might be just a ...
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More Japanese support the whale hunt than oppose it, according to a survey carried out on behalf of animal rights activists. Of 1,200 people questioned for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, 26.8 percent said Japan should continue hunting whales, against 18.5 percent who ...
The Japanese Embassy in Jakarta has held an information session to help Indonesians who have returned home after failing to pass Japan’s exam to be certified as caregivers and nurses find employment, looking to capitalize on their knowledge of Japanese culture and language. According ...
The idea of a retrospective makes me nervous. Simply put, it often signals the end of something. So in the case of a designer’s show, a retrospective feels like a parting shot, final note or a bid farewell. Not what you want if your ...
A pair of players with 2,000 hits, a pair of Sawamura-Award winning pitchers and a pair of foreign Triple Crown hitters will be eligible for induction into Japan’s Baseball Hall of Fame next year, the hall said Wednesday, when it published its list of ...
World soccer governing body FIFA said Tuesday that both venues for the upcoming Club World Cup in Japan will employ goal-line technology for the first time to assist game officials. The Hawk-Eye system, using high-speed video to track balls in flight, will be installed ...
Two years ago, 32-year-old director/translator Eriko Ogawa returned to Japan after 10 years in New York and presented a riveting production of “The Late Henry Moss,” Sam Shepard’s 2000 Pulitzer prize-winning tale of loves and hatreds in a frontier family way out West. Though ...
The government inflates support for the death penalty in its opinion surveys and a significant portion of those who favor capital punishment also say they would support abolishing it in the future, according to an information science expert. “It has been reported that more ...
Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato told heads of municipalities on his turf Wednesday that the prefecture plans to accept the central government’s on-site surveys for the construction of a temporary storage facility for radioactive waste from the meltdown crisis. At his meeting with the chiefs ...
Your Party, a minor political party, promised to end the nation’s use of nuclear power in the 2020s in its campaign platform for the Dec. 16 House of Representatives election unveiled Wednesday. If it comes into a position of power, the party would implement ...
Born in South Korea, artist Do Ho Suh moved to the United States to study at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University after achieving a BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting at Seoul National University. His works often reflect an inner ...
East Asia scores well when it comes to keeping a lid on crime, but the region still has work to do on other key factors that constitute the rule of law, a study published Wednesday suggests. The nonprofit World Justice Project’s third annual Rule ...
Much has been made in the media over the problem of Japan’s aging population and shrinking workforce. But there is another demographic time bomb, at the heart of Japan’s most militantly youthful sector of society, just waiting to explode. I’m talking, of course, about ...
Domestic rice production for 2013 has been projected at 7.91 million tons, 20,000 tons less than 2012, as demand for the country’s staple food is expected to remain on the downtrend, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said Wednesday. Rice demand in 2012 ...
Bangladesh police have arrested three managers of a factory where a blaze killed 112 people this weekend, following claims they stopped workers from leaving the plant by saying the alarm was just a routine fire drill. Dhaka police Chief Habibur Rahman said Wednesday that ...
A top Chinese daily on Wednesday condemned pop star Elton John for dedicating his Beijing show to dissident artist Ai Weiwei, saying it was disrespectful and could lead to bans on other Western performers. The Sunday night dedication was reminiscent of Icelandic singer Bjork ...
Nami Tsujikawa is a self-taught artist whose wild and fantastical works have been described by critics as a hybrid of Western and Eastern influences. Her works reject homogeneity and use unusual mixes of ethnical elements as she pursues excessive ornateness. Tsujikawa is a typical ...
Teenagers are 26 times more likely to send text messages while driving than their parents expect, based on preliminary results of a safety study by Toyota Motor Corp. and the University of Michigan. The survey of more than 5,500 people, consisting of drivers aged ...
NEC Corp., which cut 10,000 jobs this year, will probably reject workers from ailing affiliate Renesas Electronics Corp. while a consortium negotiates a bailout package. “I’m negative” on accepting Renesas employees, Chief Financial Officer Isamu Kawashima said in an interview at NEC’s headquarters in ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima may have had to wait until the J. League’s 20th season before winning their first piece of silverware, but after clinching the championship with a resounding win in front of a home crowd on Saturday, the achievement will taste all the sweeter. ...
Egyptian opposition forces rallied across the country Tuesday and into early Wednesday in the biggest show of dissent against the country’s first democratically elected leader since he precipitated a political crisis last week with an apparent bid to assume near-absolute power. A loose coalition ...