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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 ...
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 in a row it has topped ...
Mohammed Assaf, the winner of the “Arab Idol” talent competition held in Beirut in June, brought his thumping Palestinian beats ...
New York City Opera could be sounding its final note this weekend — at least for a while. The 70-year-old ...
“To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee is at odds with a museum in her Alabama hometown over use of the words in the title of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Lee is seeking a trademark for the words when they are used on clothing. ...
Fun TV fact: “Desperate Housewives” is a cult hit in North Korea. Slightly less surprisingly, shows like “Breaking Bad” and “House” are watched everywhere, from Latin America to China to France. But as America’s TV stars and bosses gathered in Los Angeles this weekend ...
A few weeks ago, a Kickstarter project was posted on the Internet featuring two young men who went by the names of Pacman and Peso.
Carolyn Cassady, a writer who was married to Jack Kerouac’s traveling companion and a lover of the famous Beat author, has died in a hospital near her home in Bracknell, southeastern England. She was 90 years old. She was married to Neal Cassady — ...
Britain’s Man Booker Prize announced on Wednesday that it was expanding to cover all novels written in the English language, meaning American authors will be eligible for the first time. The £50,000 ($80,000) Booker prize has until now been awarded annually for the best ...
The final season of award-winning U.S. television show “Mad Men” will be split in two, airing in 2014 and 2015, the cable channel that broadcasts it said Tuesday. In an announcement days before this year’s Emmy Awards, AMC said it hoped to increase ratings ...
A box set of previously unreleased recordings and studio chat by The Beatles, including early hits and cover versions, is to be released later this year, their record company said Friday. The tracks, taken from radio broadcasts at the British Broadcasting Corp. in 1963 ...
Rock icon David Bowie’s re-emergence into the limelight continued on Wednesday when he was named on the shortlist for the Mercury Prize, one of Britain’s most prestigious music awards. The winners of the award, for the best British or Irish album of any genre ...
Saul Landau, an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work gave an unprecedented glimpse into Fidel Castro’s Cuba, and who co-wrote a riveting account of a Washington assassination linked to Chilean strongman Augusto Pinochet, died Sept. 9 at his home in Alameda, California. He was ...
A James Bond Lotus submarine and a 1957 Maserati sold last night at a $33 million car auction. The Lotus Esprit Series 1 prop, propelled through the water by a working electric motor in the 1977 film “The Spy Who Loved Me,” fetched £550,000 ...
Marvel Comics revolutionized the superhero genre in the 1960s with comic book characters such as Spider-Man, Thor, Iron-Man and The Hulk. Colorfully costumed adventurers who fought criminals and alien monsters primarily on the streets of New York City, and who, despite their incredible superpowers, ...
Critics savaged “Diana,” a biopic of the late princess of Wales who died in a Paris car crash 16 years ago, just hours after its world premiere Thursday. Lead actress Naomi Watts has already defended her involvement in the controversial film, which follows Diana’s ...