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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use its adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex offenses.
Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.”
Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.
Americans are likely in for a surprise if they expect Toyota President Akio Toyoda to put on a show of authoritative “the-buck-stops-here” clout at Wednesday’s congressional hearing on the automaker’s massive recalls. In harmony-loving Japan, company heads are rarely management professionals and are picked ...
Toyota President Akio Toyoda, known as “the prince” in Japan, was groomed for years to head the automaker his grandfather founded. His appointment in 2009 was full of promise — a morale booster for the rank and file who expected that a youthful Toyoda ...
KUMANO, Mie Pref. — Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay here, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild. Is this sushi’s future? Tuna raised like chickens ...
Two years before the fatal accident that prompted Toyota Motor Corp. to warn 3.8 million U.S. car owners to take out floor mats, Troy Johnson died in a crash also suspected of being caused by a floor mat jamming an accelerator. Melodie Bohuchot, his ...
Hyundai Motor Co. — not the up-and-coming Chinese, nor the leaner meaner Americans — is the automaker that has the Japanese seriously worried. Talk to any Japanese auto executive and the official is likely to say the South Korean automaker is rapidly emerging as ...
Now that the electorate has overthrown the old guard, worries are growing that the nation’s new leaders lack a long-term vision to turn around the hobbled economy. The Democratic Party of Japan promised in the recent election to expand the social safety net with ...
Panasonic Corp. has signed on “Titanic” director James Cameron and his upcoming film in an advertising blitz for its televisions equipped with 3-D technology, both sides said Friday. The deal between the major electronics maker and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.’s “Avatar” — the ...
YOKOHAMA (AP) One plaintiff is a cancer patient. Another is represented by his widow. The third has emphysema and rolls into the Yokohama District Court in a wheelchair with tubes trailing out of his nose. The three people are waging a minnow-vs.-whale battle against ...
During the 1960s, Suzushi Hanayagi ventured alone to New York in an unusual act of courage for a Japanese woman of her generation and armed only with training in traditional dance to forge a new form of Western-style modern dance. Now 80, she sits ...
The Angry Whopper is arriving in Japan, a nation where the competition over hamburgers is as sizzling hot as the new spicy offering from U.S. fast-food chain Burger King. To make sure people got the message, Burger King Corp. hosted an “angry shouting challenge” ...
Despite years of child molestation accusations and deep financial difficulties, Michael Jackson could always count on one nation for unquestioning fan loyalty and lucrative advertising deals — Japan. His death in Los Angeles on Thursday at age 50 shook the country. Many Japanese TV ...
TOYOTA, Aichi Pref. (AP) In front of Toyota City Hall the statues of Toyota Motor Co.’s founder and the mayor who brought the automaker to the city stand side by side — a clear symbol of Toyota’s intimate and longtime ties with Japan’s biggest ...