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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 ...
China, with its increasingly assertive diplomacy and rapid military buildup, is a common security threat for Japan and South Korea, but the two countries also need to work with China as a partner in East Asia’s economic growth, veteran journalists from South Korea said ...
South Korea managed a relatively quick recovery from the global financial crisis — with a 0.2 percent gross domestic product increase in 2009 — but the country will need to invest in new engines of the economy to secure future growth, veteran journalists from ...
The continuing decline of the middle class and increase in the ranks of the poor threaten to exacerbate South Korea’s demographic woes, Kim Dong Seop, an editorial writer for the Chonsun Ilbo daily, told the March 13 symposium. Compared with the large-scale unemployment caused ...
The global economic crisis will test whether South Korea can gain long-term competitiveness by changing its heavy reliance on exports and a limited number of big companies, veteran journalists from the country told a recent symposium in Tokyo. The administration of President Lee Myung ...
New South Korean President Lee Myung Bak will pursue a “pragmatic” foreign policy that will seek to rebuild ties with the United States and Japan while taking a “carrot-and-stick” approach to North Korea, journalists from South Korea told a symposium held in Tokyo just ...
President Lee Myung Bak will seek a “mature” relationship with Japan that prioritizes economic ties and diplomatic cooperation, rather than focus on emotional issues linked to the past Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, the South Korean journalists told the Feb. 22 symposium. ...
The South Korean economy faces a host of structural challenges that were left unattended as the nation managed an export-led recovery from the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, the journalists told the Feb. 22 symposium. New President Lee Myung Bak, a former corporate ...
See related stories: Japan, South Korea can pull Asia together China’s rise may force Tokyo, Seoul to reassess business tie-ups The rules of the game in political relations between Japan and South Korea changed in recent years as Tokyo began to pursue a “normal ...
See related stories: China’s rise may force Tokyo, Seoul to reassess business tie-ups Rules change, but Japan, S. Korea game the same Japan and South Korea should work together to save the flagging efforts to seek tighter economic integration in Asia, where key players ...
See related stories: Japan, South Korea can pull Asia together Rules change, but Japan, S. Korea game the same Japanese and South Korean companies should increase technological as well as capital partnerships as they both face the challenges of globalization and China’s rising power, ...