The death toll from a blizzard that hit Hokkaido and the Tohoku region over the weekend has risen to nine, local police said Monday. The latest fatality as of Monday was Kuniko Jingi, 76, who was found collapsed under the snow on a road ...
Sleeping in. Breakfast in bed. Sunny brunches. Strolls in the park. Laid-back afternoon tea. Cocktails at sunset. Decadent late nights. Saturday — the word brings to mind a flurry of images associated with the first day of the weekend and the chances are, they ...
For the past year, Tokyo sixth-grader Manami has had dinner at home an average of four times a week. The rest of the time she has had to make do with a juku-ben, a boxed dinner prepared by her mother and consumed between classes ...
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, ...
Cuba overpowers China, winning 12-0 and advancing to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
In case you haven’t noticed, the little used bookshop around the corner has some serious competition. The new kids on the block are so spacious, brightly lit and spotlessly clean that they could easily be mistaken for convenience stores. In the business world, the ...
At some businesses around the globe, you’ll find employees sleeping on the job right under their boss’s nose. There’s little fear of a reprimand: The boss is probably taking a snooze, too. With an increasing realization that we are a largely sleep-deprived society and ...
It’s 5 a.m. and you’ve spent the past hour staring at the ceiling. You climbed into bed around 1 a.m. and fell asleep almost immediately. Then, suddenly it’s 2 a.m. and you’re wide awake. Your pulse is racing, head thumping. You try to calmly ...
* Insomnia is not a modern-day phenomena: Aristotle penned his “Sleep and Sleeplessness” in 350 B.C. * Napoleon, Margaret Thatcher, Thomas Edison, Marilyn Monroe and Vincent van Gogh are among the world’s most well-known insomniacs. * Albert Einstein was known to sleep nine hours ...
Kenji Ogasawara returned from a visit to Hawaii seven years ago on a natural high. Partially paralyzed by multiple sclerosis in mid-1994, he left for Honolulu later that year in a wheelchair. On his return to Narita two weeks later, he stepped off the ...
While experts recommend installing new locks as one way of countering a break-in, they also urge residents to consider overall home-security measures to keep burglars at bay. Here is what some of them had to say. Shigeo Osada of Nihon Lock Service Co. says ...
It’s a weekday afternoon at the Shibuya branch of Tokyu Hands and one section of the popular DIY store is attracting particular attention. Staff are kept busy by the flood of inquiries about the range of door locks neatly displayed in glass cases. “Our ...
Award-winning movie director Takeshi Kitano said Friday that the very mention of the word Italy brings to mind the kind of culture that puts present-day Japan to shame. Takeshi Kitano (right) speaking at the Festival del Cinema Italiano 2001 news conference “It seems like ...
They’re unlikely to scare away the burglar or land you a slobbery early-morning kiss on the cheek, but robopets have been rapidly making their way into Japanese homes. Tina (left) meets Sony’s Aibo. Owners have been known to give their robopets names, dress them ...
It’s an expensive wardrobe, but extremely chic and doggish: A Burberry trench coat, Coach jacket and Prada bag are complemented by a Hermes hairbrush and limited-edition perfume. It’s the kind of image that’s guaranteed to send any male into a howling frenzy. Well, any ...
