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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
NTT DoCoMo Inc. appears set to finally join its domestic archrivals and start providing Apple Inc.'s iPhone, beginning with the latest version.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government estimates that hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics will produce economic effects worth ¥3 trillion from Hokkaido to Okinawa.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has a plan to better monitor the 930 radioactive water tanks at Fukushima No. 1, but it is unclear whether it will be able to lock down the storage problem before the trickle turns into a flood.
Japanese students should buck the stay-at-home trend and instead study overseas to gain skills to survive in an ever more globalized and competitive world, experts and former international students said at a recent forum on overseas study in Tokyo. Those skills include not only ...
Water releasing as much as 10 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium-137 from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant has flowed into the Pacific Ocean since May 2011, Tepco estimates.
Tepco's radioactive water problems at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant seem uncontainable, ranging from leaking tanks to highly radioactive groundwater flowing to the sea.
It’s easy to make your way around Tokyo on the subways, buses and trains that cover the capital like a spider web. But not many people know about another way to get around — water buses. Also known as water taxis, their popularity has ...
The first Japan-U.S. talks held in parallel with the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade initiative ended Friday in Tokyo, setting the stage for further discussions on more specific issues. Since this was the inaugural round, the two sides basically stated their positions and tried to establish ...
Citizens’ groups and lawmakers urged the government Thursday to bring the reactor restart evaluation process to a halt and put all efforts and resources into containing the groundwater flow contaminating the Pacific at the Fukushima No. 1 plant. Ten activist groups, including Greenpeace Japan ...
Although Tepco assures that it is taking and planning steps to prevent more tainted groundwater from reaching the sea, it's unclear how effective those efforts are.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. waited too long to announce that radioactive groundwater from the Fukushima No. 1 complex is reaching the Pacific, its president admits.
Many municipalities across the country don’t offer disaster prevention guidebooks or maps in foreign languages and have no plans to do so, according to a recent survey. Okayama-based Learn-S Co., a maker of school textbooks and informational brochures for foreigners put out by local ...