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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 ...
South Korea displays its longest-range missile and other sophisticated weapons at a massive military ceremony, a display of force meant to show Pyongyang that any provocation would be met with strong retaliation.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was accused Wednesday by the opposition of “backpedaling at 100 miles an hour” on his ...
Chinese tourists should not pick their noses in public, pee in pools or steal airplane life jackets, China’s image-conscious authorities ...
Southeast Asia’s huge appetite for energy will see its bill for imported oil spike to $240 billion by 2035, leaving nations exposed to price shocks, the International Energy Agency warned Wednesday. The region will guzzle more than 5 million barrels of oil per day, ...
President Barack Obama has canceled a planned visit to Malaysia next week because of the U.S. government shutdown, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Wednesday. Obama is scheduled to leave Saturday night for what was originally a four-nation tour, part of his broader focus on ...
A former Afghan soldier accused of shooting dead three Australian comrades in Uruzgan province last year has been seized in Pakistan by security agents, Australia’s defense chief said Wednesday. Identified only as Hekmatullah, the former army sergeant was captured by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence in ...
China’s notoriously opaque courts have suddenly embraced social media to provide a window into their proceedings, to boost a skeptical public’s confidence in the country’s Communist Party-controlled legal system. Nearly 1,000 Chinese courts have set up microblog accounts. One in central China released a ...
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said his government has no case to answer over the reported deaths of thousands of civilians at the end of its civil war, even as pressure grows for an international inquiry to account for the dead. The U.N.’s top human ...
A Bangladesh opposition member of parliament was sentenced to death Tuesday for war crimes, becoming the first lawmaker to be convicted for offenses committed during the 1971 war of independence. Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a leader of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was “found ...
Myanmar President Thein Sein has begun his first visit to western Rakhine state since sectarian violence broke out there more than a year ago. His three-day trip comes amid reports Tuesday of a new spate of arson attacks around the city of Thandwe, where ...
The Reserve Bank of Australia on Monday admitted that staffers from a subsidiary had visited Iraq at the height of U.N. sanctions after it was accused of attempting to strike an illegal deal with Saddam Hussein. A joint investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. ...
Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the United States and South Korea still cannot agree on who should take charge if another war breaks out with the communist neighbor to the north. For years, Washington has been trying to persuade the ...
Nearly nine in 10 children in China can identify a cigarette logo, according to a U.S. study out Monday that measured tobacco recognition among typical 5- and 6-year-olds in various countries. The study in the journal Pediatrics covered six nations — Brazil, India, Nigeria, ...
Australia’s new Prime Minister Tony Abbott began a visit to Indonesia on Monday for talks on his tough refugee policies, which have sparked anger in Jakarta, as his government faced criticism over a boat sinking that left dozens dead or missing. Abbott laid a ...
In the months since a gruesome gang rape riveted India, a “women-only” culture has been on the rise, with Indians increasingly seeking out women-only buses, cabs, travel groups and hotel floors. One city is preparing to open a women-only park. And in November, the ...