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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
The two or three nuclear reactors scheduled to be built in northern Wales will bring significant economic benefits rather than fears about nuclear disasters, visiting Welsh economy minister Edwina Hart said. Hitachi Ltd. subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power is planning to build two or three ...
To reduce the flow of groundwater into the crippled reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, the government told Tepco on Thursday to freeze the soil around them. Walls of frozen soil can be created by inserting pipes into ...
In the competitive Japanese “fast fashion” market, two new Asian brands have recently come in to challenge domestic and Western rivals. South Korea-based Mixxo and Singapore’s Charles & Keith have both launched stores here in the last few months. Big names in their home ...
A miniature rotor craft controlled through a head-mounted display and Lego blocks manipulated with a PlayStation controller: These were just a couple of examples of new ideas and creativity on display last week at a two-day open house held by Sony Computer Science Laboratories ...
Three managers at a popular Roppongi nightclub are arrested under an archaic law during a raid for allegedly operating without a license.
NTT DoCoMo Inc., despite being Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, has been struggling against tough smartphone competition from KDDI Corp. and Softbank Corp., which is leading in that area. But one edge that the cellphone behemoth — it has more than 60 million subscribers ...
Sony Corp. said Wednesday that its board of directors will consider a proposal by a U.S. hedge fund to put on the stock market a minority stake in Sony’s entertainment division, retracting an earlier statement that they won’t be put up for sale. Daniel ...
Lean and focused would be a good way to characterize the recently launched lineups from Japan’s three top cellphone carriers.
GungHo Online Entertainment Inc.’s presence on the stock market has been growing rapidly on the growth of its monstrously popular smartphone game “Puzzle and Dragons.” After starting the year at ¥84,200, GungHo’s stock price had climbed to ¥1.26 million at Friday’s close on the ...
Although a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel judged Wednesday that the D-1 fault running under reactor 2 at Japan Atomic Power Co.’s Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, that decision is premature and unacceptable, the operator’s president, Yasuo Hamada, claimed the same day. ...
A fault running under reactor 2 at the Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture is active, a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel says, effectively killing any chance the reactor will be restarted.
NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it will team up with the popular social network provider Line to offer a special app for DoCoMo users, aiming to deepen its relationship with the operator of the growing communication tool. “Line’s growth has been incredible. . . . ...