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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 ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is driven to the limit when a gangster tries to ...
David Beckham, whose curling free kicks, rugged good looks and celebrity marriage made him one of the most famous athletes in the world, is retiring from soccer. Whether striding on the grass, the red carpet or the fashion catwalks, Beckham transcended his sport and ...
Govinda Prasad Mainali, the Nepali imprisoned for 15 years for a Tokyo murder he didn't commit, says he is considering suing the central government for his wrongful imprisonment and mistreatment.
Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug could cause cancer.
An Italian judge rejected a request by prosecutors to seize as much as €1.95 billion ($2.5 billion) in assets held by Nomura Holdings Inc. as they probe how Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA used derivatives to conceal losses. The judge in Siena ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical is told to pay $6.5 million to a man who sued Asia's largest drugmaker for failing to warn that its Actos diabetes drug could cause cancer.
When Elisabeth Fritzl emerged in April 2008 to her first breath of fresh air and ray of sunlight in a quarter of a century, she had been raped countless times by her father, Josef, and had borne him seven children. Five years after the ...
The chief of U.S. asset manager MRI International Inc. tells the securities watchdog that the company has lost most of its clients' money.
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission probes a U.S. investment firm after learning it may have lost more than ¥130 billion of its clients' money.
Two inmates are executed for conspiring to gun down two rival yakuza at a restaurant in Chiba in 2005.
Two inmates were hanged Friday in the second round of executions since Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in December. Put to death were yakuza Katsuji Hamasaki, 64, and Yoshihide Miyagi, 56, according to the Justice Ministry. They were convicted ...
The Utsunomiya District Court on Wednesday ordered the former driver of a truck-mounted crane who killed six schoolchildren in a 2011 accident, his mother and former company to pay about ¥125 million in damages to the victims’ parents. Presiding Judge Akihiko Iwatsubo said the ...
A 30-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were held on suspicion of abandoning her daughter’s body in Yokohama, police said Wednesday. Yukie Yamaguchi and Ryuichi Yatsui have admitted to burying Yamaguchi’s daughter, Airi, 6, in July in some bushes in Isogo Ward. Police found ...
The Tokyo District Court will hand down rulings July 3 on former Olympus Corp. Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and two other defendants who have been accused of covering up the company’s massive investment losses. The financial scandal came to light in October 2011 when then ...