President Barack Obama, now facing the consequences of automatic spending cuts and the complications they raise for his broader domestic agenda, is taking the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years. ...
It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chugoku no gunkan (中国の軍艦, Chinese warships) in the Higashi Shina Kai (東シナ海, East China Sea) challenged Japan’s Kaijo Jieitai (海上自衛隊, Maritime Self Defense Forces, MSDF) patrols in a manner deemed kyōiteki (脅威的, threatening). And on Feb. ...
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
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Michael Woodford glances out of the floor-to-ceiling window of his multimillion-pound loft apartment, which looks out across the River Thames toward the City of London, the so-called Square Mile that is among the world’s leading financial and commercial centers. The 52-year-old Briton has effectively ...
It’s as English as dancing round a Maypole on the village green. But, wedged between a rugby pitch and fields full of practicing Little Leaguers, the University of Tokyo Cricket Club and their counterparts across town from Chuo are doing their best to put ...
They were four simple words that I never wanted to hear: “Ha wo warimasu, ne (歯を割りますね, I’m going to split your tooth, OK?).” That day was the third installment in the gnasher (not slasher) trilogy “My Date with the Dentist.” Parts one and two ...
Three-dozen sozzled office types, teachers and the like are cradling their drinks in one hand and punching the air with the other, bawling, “Everybody must get STONED!” They’re here watching a song and dance man who’s wearing vintage Ray-Bans and a shock of a ...
It was 60 years ago this month when a country crooner from the South released the first-ever single to spin at 45 rpm. Issued in green vinyl on the RCA label, the 7-inch “Texarkana Baby” by Eddy “The Tennessee Plowboy” Arnold became a No. ...
Thinking it was high time I had my synapses chomped by digitally enhanced satanic hardcore dance music, I head off to the appropriately titled Hell’s Gate event at Studio Cube 326 in Tamachi, a reclaimed armpit of Tokyo. Hell’s Gate is half Harajuku Goth-meet, ...
Riviera, 19, office worker; Miku, 22, store manager; Nao, 22, sales assistant Who’s been the best act so far? Riviera: So far we’ve only seen Kyon Kyon (Kyoko Koizumi), ET-King and Shonan no Kaze. We like reggae, so I think Shonan no Kaze were ...
Jason Pierce almost died in July 2005. Hooked up to a ventilator and suffering from double pneumonia, Pierce — aka J Spaceman — shrank to 45 kg and spent two weeks in intensive care in a London hospital. Things looked so bad that his ...
“It was a nightmare,” laughs Tokyo-based author David Peace of a recent trip to Paris to promote the French version of his most successful novel, “The Damned Utd.” A fictionalized account of Brian Clough’s tumultuous 44-day reign in 1974 as manager of Leeds United ...
Three years after their catchy debut “With Love and Squalor” burrowed its way into the homes of 150,000 people worldwide, Brooklyn-based indie-rockers We Are Scientists are back. Comprising Keith Murray (guitars/vocals) and Chris Cain (bass/vocals), this time around the duo’s plan for world domination ...
