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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
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 ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
A group of parents filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking ¥890 million in damages from Central Nippon Expressway Co., operator of a tunnel that collapsed in December and killed nine people. In the suit filed at the Yokohama District Court, the families of five of the nine people killed blamed the ...
Germany’s resort island of Sylt has been shaken by the death of a celebrated Japanese chef who was roughed up ...
Yahoo Japan Corp. suspects that up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorized attempt to ...
Since debuting in October as Japan’s first law office catering to foreign nationals, Tokyo Public Law Office Mita Branch — Foreigners and International Service in Minato Ward has been deluged with appointments. And lawyer Masako Suzuki believes there are more non-Japanese in dire need ...
Star chef Miki Nozawa, who built his fame in top-notch restaurants in Italy and Russia, was beaten to death early Monday in Sylt, northern Germany, by two men who dined at his restaurant without paying their bill, local police and media reports said Wednesday. ...
The Line instant messaging app for smartphone users is growing increasingly popular with young people, and now the carrier is faced with a rise in sex-related crimes involving teenage girls. In April, police arrested a 36-year-old man, a registered first-grade architect, on suspicion of ...
A 28-year-old man pleads not guilty in court to charges that he killed the mother and grandmother of a woman he allegedly roughed up and stalked in 2011.
Police were looking for two men Friday who allegedly robbed a 77-year-old woman of nearly ¥10 million after she was lured to Yanaka Cemetery in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on the pretense of bringing cash to help her son out of a jam the previous ...
Six years after a deadly explosion ripped through a spa in Tokyo's bustling Shibuya district, the facility's chief designer is found guilty of negligence.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a discrimination lawsuit against the government that demanded an apology and damages over the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, which claimed tens of thousands of lives in 1945, the top court said Thursday. The five-justice first ...
A Brazilian woman of Japanese descent has filed a lawsuit against the government demanding that she be allowed to re-enter Japan, where her husband lives. Giullyane Futenma, 21, was denied re-entry when her husband Lucas Futenma, 22, also a Japanese-Brazilian, applied for her resident ...
A group of lawyers said Wednesday it plans to file a criminal complaint against Edwin Yoshihiro Fujinaga, president of U.S. asset management firm MRI International Inc., claiming the firm’s mishandling of funds invested by Japanese clients led to massive losses. The Securities and Exchange ...
A 62-year-old woman who served as a citizen judge in a murder case sued the government Tuesday for ¥2 million, arguing her involvement in the trial caused her to suffer acute stress disorder. The resident of Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, was one of the six ...
The families of five people killed when an expressway tunnel ceiling collapsed in December plan to sue Central Nippon Expressway Co., or NEXCO Central, for damages, their lawyers said Tuesday. The accident happened Dec. 2 in the Sasago Tunnel in Yamanashi Prefecture on the ...
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.