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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 ...
The hourlong walk from the local railway station to the Morteratsch glacier is a winding trek through a valley littered with rocks that the retreating ice left behind. The walk was not always this long. In the mid-19th century, the Morteratsch glacier stretched all the way to the station in ...
Top U.N. experts have just delivered the first volume of a massive new climate change report, but already whispers are ...
Come dinner time, wild salmon is an excellent choice. Many of the Pacific fisheries are well managed, and the fish ...
Read a story about salmon, and the odds are that, somewhere, it’ll tell you that wild salmon tastes better than farmed. But does it? We decided to find out in a blind tasting, and assembled a panel that included noted Washington seafood chefs and ...
Top scientists have a better idea of how global warming will shape the 21st century: In a new report, they predict sea levels will be much higher than previously thought and pinpoint how dangerously hot it’s likely to get. In its most strongly worded ...
As desertification creeps into parts of the world, a rare stretch of sand in Canada’s vast western plains is oddly doing the reverse — slowly sprouting vegetation. Tufts of prairie grasses are emerging throughout Spirit Sands, a stretch of dunes steeped in local lore ...
Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill. They are as sure about climate change as they are about the age of the universe. And ...
Air pollution kills more people annually than road accidents in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city and host of the opening game of the 2014 World Cup, a study found. The survey by the Health and Environment out Tuesday said at least 4,655 people ...
A slowdown in warming that has provided fuel for climate skeptics is one of the thorniest issues in a report to be issued by U.N. experts on Friday. Over the past 15 years, the world’s average surface temperature rose far slower than many climate ...
Careening through the winding streets of Chennai, India, in the back of black and yellow auto-rickshaws, I am always amazed by the drivers’ audacity — or perhaps a better term would be “death wish.” These are the subcontinent’s equivalent of New York’s exuberant cabbies, ...
The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to the sixth-lowest level on record, but that left much more ice than last year’s all-time low. The ice cap at the North Pole melts in the summer and grows in winter. Its ...
The upcoming U.N. report on man-made climate change is not likely to rattle U.S. deniers of global warming who hold sway in the halls of power, experts say. A hefty analysis of the latest science on global climate change, the report is packed with ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed Friday to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants in a bid to implement President Barack Obama’s plan to fight climate change. The move marks the “first milestone” of a major part of the Climate Action Plan ...
Scientists will put pressure in the coming week on the U.N.’s troubled climate talks by releasing a report pointing to the dizzying challenge of meeting the international body’s global warming target. In the first volume of a massive trilogy, the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel ...
U.S. scientists may have found a new way to produce clean energy by way of dirty water, according to a new study. The engineers have developed a more efficient method to use microbes to harness electricity from wastewater. They hope their technique can be ...