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A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 320 kph. At least 91 ...
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.
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 ...
Judy Mintze, who contacted us in search of her long lost mother, is on cloud nine. “I’m so pleased to inform you that I was reunited with my mother for the first time in over 40 years in early April at the Medical Corp. ...
Reader SB was working for Nova and his visa runs out next fall. “I would like to stay in Japan and have been teaching a number of private as well as company classes. However, I think it will be difficult to get any of ...
Reader TS writes: “I return to the U.S. next week and I was supposed to receive my final pay check from a really bad ALT company . . . last week, but did not receive payment. I’ve called them but the secretaries say that ...
Some quickies: In reply to the reader looking for a bread bin, ML says that the Tokyu store in the JR Shibuya Station complex on the 7th floor can meet your needs. “You have to order from a catalog, and they come from Germany, ...
Reader A.B. is concerned that he has been driving on an International Driving Permit and is getting mixed messages as to its legality. “While I’m hearing from some that I need to get a Japanese driving license, others are telling me that I can ...
In reply to a computer user seeking advice on “Going wireless on the move” (Lifelines, Jan. 5), M.H. wonders why Bic Camera ( www.biccamera.com ) and Emobile ( www.emobile.jp/en ) were mentioned, but not UQ WiMAX ( www.uqwimax.jp/service/trywimax/ ). “When I visited Bic’s Shibuya ...
Terri has a friend visiting Japan in spring. “She is a fashion designer, and very interested in ethnic textiles. I seem to remember a museum opening in Tokyo sometime last year — something to do with Asian textiles — but can’t remember any details. ...
Two recent inquiries have come in from Canadian fathers who have suddenly lost contact with their children. “Every day I take my daughter to school and pick her up and take her home,” writes B.Y. “I went to pick up my daughter and she ...
Reader A.V. wants to get Internet service for his apartment but does not want to do it through a fixed-line service. “Is it possible to get online with a wireless system that you can take with you and also work at home?” he asks. ...
Scuba source In reply to the inquiry about scuba diving (Lifelines, Oct. 6), Matt writes on behalf of Mar Scuba, the oldest foreigner-run dive operation in Tokyo ( www.marscuba.com ). “Mar Scuba serves the foreign community by providing education and instruction in English, PADI ...
An American by birth, K.M. found the inquiry in our Oct. 20 column about koseki tohon, or family registration, very interesting. “My case is not relevant to the one under discussion, as the young man is only 18 and is dealing with issues that ...
Where is my father? Yovichi (Yoichi?) Perez is “Japinoy,” meaning of Filipino-Japanese ancestry. He saw a letter from a Japinoy like himself, also looking for his father, so he thought he would try his luck with us. Y was abandoned by his Japanese father ...