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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 ...
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).
This summer, I spent an hour floating in a 1.21 × 2.4-meter isolation tank filled with tepid salt water in ...
Whole-wheat and whole-grain products are hard to find in Japan, where most bakeries and supermarkets sell white bread products only. ...
Do all whole grains contain dietary fiber? What are other sources of fiber? These questions seem simple, but they’re not. Answering them, however, is important because they focus on two healthful eating goals: 1) Eat more whole grains and 2) Eat more dietary fiber. ...
The fountain of youth may simply be a healthy diet and reduced stress after all, not a magic pill or expensive cosmetics. Comprehensive lifestyle changes, including more fruit and vegetables as well as meditation and yoga, were shown to reverse signs of aging at ...
Ah, Kichijoji: my favorite Tokyo neighborhood. Less than 30 minutes from the heart of the city, this hip suburb has everything a downtown dweller would want: good restaurants, good shopping, a thriving music scene and one of the coolest parks in the Kanto region. ...
Self-harm blogs shelter in a dark, desperate corner of the Internet that few of us will ever see. But 14-year-old Anouschka, a baby-faced blogger, has lived here for months, collecting photos of slashed wrists and razor blades, reading grim, adolescent poems about death and ...
Louis Vuitton is celebrating six of its designer's "muses" in an interactive exhibition at the Tokyo Station Hotel. "Timeless Muses" honors supermodel Kate Moss, film director Sofia Coppola, French actress Catherine Deneuve, novelist Françoise Sagan, architect Charlotte Perriand and, to bring the "timeless" into ...
Two years ago, when Los Angeles’ Louis DeMenthon was trying to bulk up, he encountered the ubiquitous challenge faced by those seeking physique changes: meal planning. In vain, DeMenthon searched for an online planner that would tell him exactly what foods to eat in ...
The city of Onomichi in the southeastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture, which looks out to the Seto Inland Sea, has a rich and long tradition as a hub of trade. During the Edo Period (1603-1867), it prospered as a key docking point for domestic ...
It was pouring rain in the Nepali village of Kaskikot, which was bad news for Laura Spero and the ceremony she had planned. Mid-April was far too early for monsoon weather, but one thing the 33-year-old had learned since she began traveling regularly between ...
I am sitting at a low wooden table with a group of Japanese mothers discussing the pros and cons of different knitting stitches. In my hands are the embarrassingly uneven beginnings of a turquoise scarf that I am hoping will become the first-ever knitted ...
Last year Google had an M&M problem. So, as it does with most dilemmas, the Internet giant put its data wizards into action. Employees were eating too much of the free candy and that, the firm surmised, might hinder efforts to keep them healthy ...
Connor Levy made history when he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May, but not because he was created through in vitro fertilization. Rather, he is the first child to be born after his parents screened the genomes of a batch of their embryos ...
They’re sweaty, they’re chubby and they love pushing each other around. But enough about the folks at my family reunion, let’s talk about sumo. This quintessentially Japanese sport is a lot of fun to witness with kids, and the Ryogoku neighborhood surrounding Tokyo’s Kokugikan ...