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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 ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has estimated that the suspension of nuclear power plants may boost utilities’ costs to generate electricity by ¥3.8 trillion this fiscal year, officials said. The extra fuel costs for thermal power in the year to next March ...
The energy agency said Monday it has started test drilling for oil in a Sea of Japan location that could turn out to be one of the largest oil and natural gas deposits in the country. It is the first time in about nine ...
Japan and the European Union began preliminary talks Monday toward the creation of one of the world’s largest free-trade accords, with both sides seeking to boost their respective, faltering economies with such a deal. During the five-day meeting in Brussels, the two sides are ...
Asia’s emerging economies should consider reining in monetary stimulus to curb the risks of asset bubbles and inflation as policy easing in developed nations, including Japan, spur capital inflows, the World Bank said. Demand-boosting measures that helped sustain growth “may now be counterproductive,” the ...
The Bank of Japan on Monday raised its assessment of all regions for the first time since last July, citing a pickup in the global economy and resilient domestic demand, following its unprecedented easing measures. The central bank became more upbeat about all nine ...
The U.S. Treasury Department says it will pressure Japan to refrain from competitive devaluation while stopping short of accusing it of manipulating the yen.
Farmers and carmakers fret over the accord reached with the U.S. endorsing Japan's entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, but major business lobbies hail the move.
The government on Friday left its monthly assessment of the economy unchanged for the first time in four months, with consumption and housing investment perking up but capital spending showing little movement. The economy “is showing indications of picking up recently, while weakness can ...
Prices are rising before incomes are and thus consumers are feeling the pain of the yen's depreciation driven by "Abenomics."
Miyagi Prefecture has filed an application with the central government’s Reconstruction Agency to establish a special zone to revive the local fishing industry, hit badly by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the special zone, covering part of the Momonoura district in the ...
Core private-sector machinery orders rose a seasonally adjusted 7.5 percent in February from the previous month as higher stocks and the yen’s slide made more companies eager to beef up investment, the government said Thursday. The orders, which exclude those for ships as well ...
The government is planning to announce Friday the results of its preliminary negotiations with the United States on Japan joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, sources said Thursday. With the two sides already in agreement on key issues, including auto tariffs, U.S. President Barack ...