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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 latest version of the blockbuster video game “Grand Theft Auto” may have stoked a worldwide buying frenzy, but the ultraviolent offering is likely to be a minnow in Japan’s vast gaming market. Shoot-em-up video games from abroad often struggle to gain traction here, where fantasy-style games reign supreme and ...
The much-anticipated final episode of “Breaking Bad” drew the cult TV show’s largest ever audience — 10.3 million viewers — ...
Fake online product reviews have been around for years, fueled by unscrupulous marketers seeking to boost sales. But a recent ...
Google Inc. has quietly retooled the closely guarded formula running its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex questions posed by Web surfers. The overhaul came as part of an update called Hummingbird that Google has gradually rolled out over ...
American engineers have built the first computer made entirely of microscopic carbon nanotubes — a big step in the quest for faster, smaller electronic devices. While performing only basic functions at speeds likened to a 1950s computer, the tiny machine was hailed as a ...
The fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple’s latest iPhone can be bypassed using a household printer and some wood glue, a German hacking group has claimed. A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said the group managed to fool the biometric sensor in ...
Tesco, Britain’s largest retailer by sales, is jumping into the competitive market for tablet computers. The company says its new Android-operated Hudl tablet will sell for £119 ($190). It will be priced at less than £100 for Tesco Clubcard members. Tesco Chief Executive Philip ...
As Apple pitches its newest smartphones, users may find they break more easily. SquareTrade, a provider of protection plans for gadgets, tested five smartphones to see if they could withstand drops, dunks and other common hazards. It found the latest models aren’t as durable ...
One of the highlights of the iPhone 5S, the fingerprint scanner, is facing two concerns that may take a little shine off Apple’s cool new feature. Privacy advocates have raised concerns over how Apple plans to handle this highly sensitive data. And many consumers ...
A founding father of the modern computer, Alan Turing devised a machine that unraveled Nazi codes and aided the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Convicted of homosexuality after World War II and sentenced to chemical castration, Turing — an avid fan of the film “Snow ...
The communications revolution that swept the globe missed the Zapotec village of Talea de Castro high in the mountains of southern Mexico, where making any sort of call meant trudging to a community telephone line and paying what could be a day’s wages for ...
Google is bringing its digital wallet to the iPhone, in its latest attempt to upstage Apple on its own popular handset. Thursday’s release of the Google Wallet app represents a challenge to the Passbook program that Apple has built into the iPhone’s latest operating ...
With consumers eagerly awaiting the release of two new iPhones this week, the more dramatic change may be in the software. The new iOS 7 mobile operating system became available Wednesday, providing users of iPhones and iPads a bolder look that Apple hopes will ...
Fans of “Grand Theft Auto V” on Tuesday got their first chance to play the latest version of the brutally violent blockbuster video game franchise after many lined up for hours to buy it. Rockstar Games spent five years crafting the title with a ...
Hackers have hit back in retaliation for U.S. cyberspying on Brazil but mistook the U.S. space agency NASA for the National Security Agency, a news website reported Tuesday. “Some activists decided to protest this U.S. practice but it seems that they picked the wrong ...