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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
U.S. stocks closed out another week of new record highs Friday. Optimistic reports on consumer confidence and the economic outlook drove a rally that pushed the Dow and S&P 500 to end-of-the-week records highs for the third straight week. Over the week, the Dow ...
Investors are more confident in a Japanese leader than any time since at least September 2010, with optimism about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policies exceeding that for counterparts in the U.S., Europe and China. The number of respondents who are more optimistic than pessimistic ...
Is it a sign of a full-fledged economic recovery or a looming catastrophe in the monetary making? Recent spikes in Japan’s long-term interest rate, represented by the 10-year government bond, have created a stir and roused a deep sense of alarm among investors and ...
Resona Holdings Inc., the nation’s fifth-largest bank by market value, is poised to tie up with Malaysia’s Public Bank Bhd. as part of its efforts to expand in Asia. Resona will sign an agreement with Malaysia’s third-biggest lender on Monday to serve Japanese companies ...
The Obama administration drew sharp criticism from environmental and oil industry groups Thursday when it issued a new draft of regulations for fracking on federal and Indian lands. Environmental groups said the new draft provides weaker water protections than a version the Interior Department ...
GungHo Online Entertainment Inc.’s presence on the stock market has been growing rapidly on the growth of its monstrously popular smartphone game “Puzzle and Dragons.” After starting the year at ¥84,200, GungHo’s stock price had climbed to ¥1.26 million at Friday’s close on the ...
Modec Inc., a maker of floating oil platforms, and the Saga Prefectural Government have announced they will conduct this autumn the world’s first experiment to generate electricity from a combination of tidal and wind systems. The combination is expected to help increase stability and ...
Struggling electronics maker Panasonic Corp. plans to procure small lithium-ion batteries for smartphones from a Hong Kong firm, sources said Friday. Sales of the batteries made by Amperex Technology Ltd., a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of TDK Corp., might start by the end of the ...
The employment rate for people who graduated from college in March rose for the second straight year, standing at 93.9 percent on April 1, the start of the business year, up 0.3 percentage point from a year earlier, the government said Friday. The employment ...
Aichi ranked fourth nationwide in new factory construction in 2012 with 51 new locations designated for plants, a report compiled by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said. Although the prefecture’s rank slid from second last year, new properties rose by eight, with ...
Retail giant Aeon Co. plans to have women filling 30 percent of managerial positions by 2016 and 50 percent by 2020, President Motoya Okada said. Only around 10 percent of all managers at its roughly 200 group companies are women, due in part to ...
The monthly pay of private-sector workers in Japan averaged ¥313,695 in fiscal 2012, down 0.7 percent from the previous year, as the nation’s ranks of part-time workers expanded, the government said Friday. Pay dropped for the second consecutive year, the Health, Labor and Welfare ...