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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.
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 ...
Cerberus Capital Management LP said Thursday it will extend its tender offer for Seibu Holdings Inc. shares for two weeks until May 31 as shareholders are still making inquires about the U.S. private equity firm’s offer. Cerberus, which already holds a 32 percent stake ...
Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the new U.S. energy secretary. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama’s first term. Moniz was an energy undersecretary ...
Core private-sector machinery orders jump a seasonally adjusted 14.2 percent, indicating the weaker yen and higher stocks are starting to prompt companies to boost investment.
The economy enjoys a stronger than expected recovery, growing at a 3.5 percent annual pace as the government stepped up public works spending and eased credit to encourage investment.
Google Inc. has unveiled a streaming music service, called All Access, that blends songs users have uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks for a $10 monthly fee. The service puts the Internet goliath in competition with popular paid subscription plans ...
The 11 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations began their 17th round of talks in Lima on Wednesday with the focus on whether exceptions should be made to the general rule of tariff elimination. Even though Japan gained the unanimous backing of ...
Honda Motor Co. formally announced Thursday that it will return to Formula One in 2015 as an engine supplier to British team McLaren to revive their championship-winning partnership. “We shall act as Maclaren-Honda” and are resolved to be “the No. 1, ” Honda President ...
Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S. Web companies. That is not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit that believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market ...
A two-day meeting to discuss how to utilize African natural resources started in Tokyo on Thursday, with around 2,000 people, including natural resources ministers from 15 African nations, attending. At the Japan Sustainable Mining, Investment and Technology Business Forum, or J-SUMIT, the African ministers ...
The dollar was stable above ¥102 in Tokyo on Thursday, repeating narrow movements in a wait-and-see mood ahead of the announcements of key U.S. economic indicators. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥102.43-47, up slightly from ¥102.35-43 at the same time Wednesday. ...
Tokyo stocks are expected to remain on a firm note for the time being, even after the Nikkei average topped 15,000, as more money is likely to flow into the market from abroad, analysts said. The Tokyo market’s rally has gathered pace since the ...
Stocks fell back Thursday as profit-taking gained the upper hand. The Nikkei 225 average closed down 58.79 points at 15,037.24 after hitting a 64-month intraday high of 15,155.72 in early trading. On Wednesday, the key gauge surged 337.61 points. The Topix dropped 7.62 points ...