20
L/FOG
Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
A movie based on the book written by Tatsuya Ichihashi, whose slaying of a British English teacher in 2007 set off a nationwide manhunt, will debut next year, the publisher and film producer said Thursday. Producer Sedic International told publisher Gentosha that it wanted ...
A tourism association in Yamagata Prefecture is selling pillows containing cherry pits that can be heated or chilled and used to soothe aching shoulders or throbbing heads. “It is probably the first time a cherry pit pillow has been sold in Japan,” said Masaru ...
For the people of Tokyo, the wide banks of the Tama River are among the most popular places to have a barbecue. What many of them don’t know, however, or maybe they just don’t care, is that cookouts along most of the river, especially ...
A mail-order soap has caused at least 471 people to suffer wheat allergy reactions, including unconsciousness, and the distributor and manufacturer are trying to recall millions of the bars while the health ministry is alerting consumers to the dangers. The allergic reactions linked to ...
Olympus Corp. President Shuichi Takayama said Tuesday the company concealed huge losses on securities investments since the 1990s and used recent acquisitions of Gyrus Group PLC and three Japanese companies to cover the off-the-book losses. The revelation means that the Tokyo-based camera and medical ...
“Gyudon” beef-on-rice restaurants belonging to the Sukiya chain have become a favorite target of robbers. The chain’s outlets accounted for about 90 percent of all gyudon diners that were victims of stickups between January and September, according to the National Police Agency. To counter ...
The March 11 nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant has transformed what used to be a long-standing academic debate into an urgent issue for millions of ordinary people: Will long-term exposure to low-level radiation cause any health problems? Experts have long been ...
Olympus Corp., whose shares plummeted about 50 percent after its ousted former president publicly criticized it for dubious money transactions, claimed Thursday there is nothing illicit about the advisory fee it paid in acquiring a British medical equipment firm. “We believe we did nothing ...
Japanese should think about how developed nations view their country’s policy on executions, Justice Minister Hideo Hiraoka said in a recent interview. “I feel Japanese citizens do not fully understand how we are viewed by developed countries. I want all of us to be ...
The health department in Kashiwa, a city in Chiba Prefecture with multiple radiation hot spots, has received numerous inquiries from worried residents wanting to find out their internal radiation levels. Kashiwa official Seiichi So meya says he understands their concerns, especially when it involves ...
A man in his 40s who worked for a week in August at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s radiation-leaking Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has died of acute leukemia, but it was not caused by exposure to fallout, Tepco said Tuesday. The man, whose name ...
Korean pop groups began gaining popularity and media exposure in Japan last year, singing and dancing on TV shows and appearing in commercials. Fluent in Japanese, the so-called K-pop phenomenons go out of their way to impress fans with their dedication to the language ...