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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
“We’d be playing someone’s basement in America …” “And we only had five or six people there …” “We had some nights where the audience was zero.” As Yasuko “Yako” Onuki and Ichiro Agata prepare for a gruelling, 29-city North American tour to promote ...
A best-of album is not what you’d expect from an artist who has been around for five years. But that’s exactly what Ramona Gonzalez, who records under the moniker Nite Jewel, released in advance of her upcoming Japanese tour. “I sat down and thought ...
In a drab building in central Scotland, one afternoon in the armpit of winter, an actor who looks a lot like nice-guy James McAvoy is persuading a room full of blokes to — I’m paraphrasing here — Xerox their cocks. “Come on!” he roars, ...
Ten-thousand Kumamons doing an elaborate Busby Berkeley-style dance routine to Kyu Sakamoto’s international 1963 hit “Sukiyaki”? A 100-meter Hatsune Miku towering over the stadium while 80,000 spectators crane their necks for a glimpse up her skirt? Newly elected Prime Minister Pamyu Pamyu speeding up ...
Ever since the Towada Art Center opened five years ago, the city in Aomori Prefecture has seen its prospects dramatically alter. Not only by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, but by the subsequent devastation of neighboring areas, all of which compounded ...
“Miwa has carried on being a true monster (kaibutsu), whereas many amazingly talented freaks have gone back to looking and behaving normally after enjoying a brief boom in popularity,” said dramatist Hideki Noda at a press conference last month for “Miwa,” his play based ...
Cult crime show “Breaking Bad” won the best drama Emmy on Sunday, but there was disappointment for “House of Cards,” which had hoped to win the first major award for an online-only series. The best comedy award went to “Modern Family,” the fourth year ...
The town of Oirase, Aomori Prefecture, seems like a good place for homesick Americans to settle down. It’s known for its own Statue of Liberty — bigger than the one that sits at the edge of Tokyo Bay. This weekend, the town will also ...
Haiku, the short Japanese poem now proliferating overseas, scarcely needs an introduction anymore. Its three great pillars, widely read even in translation, are the poets Matsuo Basho (1641-1694), its first creator, then Yosa Buson (1716-1784) and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), who renewed it. THE WINTER ...
The inter-season TV schedule always features specials dedicated to police videos, eating contests and large, impoverished families. In this third category we have “Binbo ni Makeru na” (“We Won’t be Beaten by Poverty”; TV Tokyo, Mon., 6:30 p.m.), the 11th semiannual installment in the ...
