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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 ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s apparent inept handling of the triple-meltdown crisis at its Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant may foreclose on its bid to restart two idled reactors in Niigata Prefecture, the Nuclear Regulation Authority chief indicates.
The University of Tokyo is once again the highest-performing tertiary institution in Asia, according to the Times Higher Education World ...
The U.S. government shutdown that started at midnight Monday has impacted the global travel industry, with tourist agencies in Japan ...
A woman is struck and killed by a train after dashing into a Yokohama railroad crossing and moving to safety a 74-year-old man lying on the tracks.
The approval rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet stands at 63.3 percent, up from 61.8 percent last month, a Kyodo News survey showed Wednesday, despite the government’s recent decision to raise the politically sensitive sales tax. In the latest survey, 53.3 percent of ...
Police arrested a food stall owner Wednesday over an explosion at a fireworks event in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, on Aug. 15 that killed three people and injured 55 others, including him. Ryohei Watanabe, 38, was arrested by the Kyoto Prefectural Police on suspicion of ...
Shinjiro Koizumi’s appointment Monday as parliamentary secretary in charge of Tohoku’s recovery has generated much attention amid mounting criticism of the government for failing to speed up reconstruction efforts or end the radioactive water spill into the sea at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...
Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Tuesday criticized current leader Shinzo Abe’s latest economic stimulus program as “pork.” “I cannot help feeling that it is pork-barrel spending,” Noda, a supreme adviser of the Democratic Party of Japan, said in a speech in Washington, referring ...
In a rare move, a senior U.S. military officer has questioned Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to amend the pacifist Constitution, expressing concern it could adversely affect ties with China and South Korea. “That’s not helpful to the region, quite frankly,” the officer based ...
Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi criticized the government’s push to restart nuclear power generation and urged it to reconsider. “It is irresponsible to pursue nuclear power when there is no permanent disposal site for radioactive waste,” Koizumi said at a lecture in Nagoya. The ...
Augmented reality glasses that can translate a menu in real time were unveiled at the CEATEC Japan gadget fair Monday, with promises they could be ready for visitors to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. NTT DoCoMo was showing off its latest development where cameras, computers ...
Japanese joggers are being warned to mind their manners when they run around the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo, after a recent spate of rudeness. Officials say tourists and older visitors to the grounds have complained of runners crashing into them from behind and ...
With melons that sell for the price of a new car — admittedly a small one — and grapes that go for more than ¥10,000 a pop, Japan has long been a country where a perfectly formed piece of fruit can fetch a fortune. ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to go to Brunei, Cambodia and Laos — the three ASEAN nations he has yet to visit since taking office — before a special summit in December in Tokyo between Japan and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian ...
The number of households on welfare hit an all-time high of 1,588,521 in July, up 5,213 from the month before, the welfare ministry said Wednesday. Individual recipients rose by 5,824 to 2,158,946. Households consisting of people aged 65 or over accounted for 715,072, or ...