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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 Florence Appellate Court hearing U.S. student Amanda Knox’s third trial in her roommate’s murder agrees Monday to run additional DNA tests on the presumed weapon, but rejects more than a dozen other defense requests for new testimony or evidence.
The brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was convicted Tuesday of raping his daughter in a case that highlighted ...
The global war on heroin, cocaine and cannabis is failing to stem supply, as prices of these drugs have tumbled ...
Hundreds of anesthesiologists on Monday urged the state of Missouri not to use propofol in an upcoming execution, saying the fallout could jeopardize the availability of the anesthetic relied on by thousands of U.S. hospitals and clinics. The Missouri Society of Anesthesiologists’ statement followed ...
A few nights after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, David Posey heard a strange noise in his house and went upstairs to check on his son. The little boy, who had just seen his teacher and a first-grade classmate gunned down, was ...
Paul Hyland almost never forgets a face. He is a “superrecognizer,” and that is giving an unusual kind of help to his employer: Britain’s Scotland Yard. Several years ago, for example, London police were on the lookout for a burglar wanted for nine robberies. ...
Chile’s president announced Thursday that he will close a luxury prison for dictatorship-era military officials who have been convicted of crimes against humanity, taking away their tennis courts, barbecues and a swimming pool. The Cordillera prison, located on an army base, has provided officers ...
Washington Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis left a note saying he was driven to kill by bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves, the FBI said Wednesday, a disclosure that explains the phrase he etched on his shotgun: “My ELF Weapon!”
The promoters of Michael Jackson’s doomed last tour should pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the late pop icon’s family over his 2009 death, a lawyer said in closing arguments Tuesday. In a heartstrings-tugging final presentation wrapping up a five-month trial, ...
Peru has displaced Colombia as the world’s leading producer of coca leaf, although it succeeded for the first time in seven years in cutting output of the illicit plant used to make cocaine, the United Nations said Tuesday. Peru cut its area under coca ...
In the Soviet era, female political prisoners who were sent to labor in Russia’s Mordovia region described their privations in tiny words written on cigarette papers, which took months to reach the world. Today, an inmate can hand a real letter to a husband, ...
The smuggling of 1.4 tons of cocaine in 31 suitcases on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris has led to nine arrests on two continents, and Venezuela’s top police official said Monday that he expects more arrests with airline workers suspected. Yet ...
Aaron Alexis’ erratic and violent behavior was ignored, overlooked or dismissed for nine years by police, the military, the Department of Veterans Affairs and his employer, creating a series of missed opportunities that might have stopped the Washington Navy Yard gunman, according to records ...
Aaron Alexis had a gold Buddha in his room, a regular meditation practice and a gun with him “at all times,” according to a friend. At one point, he aspired to be a monk. He wound up a killer. Of the many details that ...
Pope Francis has removed a Roman Catholic bishop who is suspected of sexually abusing minors in Peru. Gabino Miranda, 53, was removed as part of the pope’s “zero tolerance” policy against abuse, said the Rev. Luis Bambaren, the retired former chief of the Peruvian ...