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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 ...
Visa violators kick off a five-day protest at the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau to protest plans to deport overstayers en masse on planes.
Incentives are needed to reverse the decline in Japanese enrollment at U.S. universities as Japanese companies compete harder and earlier to recruit new graduates, experts said at a symposium. “They ...
Prime Minister Abe's proposal to expand child care leave to three years is upsetting some firms because it runs against current programs designed to support working parents.
A government-affiliated body in charge of scholarship loan programs plans to halve the current 10 percent interest rate for late ...
The Fukushima nuclear crisis struck a nerve with Japan’s normally passive public, prompting many to raise their voices against atomic ...
Yushi Katayama began to think seriously about leaving Japan after the birth of his son, Shota, in 2012. The decades-long economic slump and poor social welfare system as well as lack of innovation made Japan less than an ideal place for him to raise ...
One out of about 2,800 people in Sapporo is suffering from gender identity disorder, according to a survey compiled recently by a medical group in Hokkaido. On a national scale, the ratio would translate into about 46,000 patients across Japan, which is more than ...
Japan's population fell by a record 0.22 percent to 127.515 million as of last Oct. 1, while people aged 65 or older surpassed the 30 million mark for the first time.
The case of the Osaka high school basketball coach accused of physically punishing players so harshly that one committed suicide has been turned over to prosecutors. According to the Osaka Prefectural Police, former Sakuranomiya High School teacher Hajime Komura, 47, who coached the basketball ...
A Japanese Olympic Committee probe concludes that 15 elite female judoka suffered a "grave injustice" from the physical and verbal abuse inflicted by their former coach.
Since the Dec. 14 massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, calls for stricter gun control are gaining momentum in the United States. To support the move, Mieko and Masaichi Hattori, whose son, Yoshihiro, was gunned ...
For the first time in 15 years, fewer than 30,000 people committed suicide last year, the National Police Agency said Thursday. All told, 27,858 people killed themselves, down 9.1 percent from the previous year, the agency said. Financial problems were blamed for 5,219 suicides, ...
Japan has one of the lowest scores in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of socioeconomic opportunities for women, according to MasterCard’s latest Index of Women’s Advancement released Wednesday. Japan was second-lowest on the index, which measures the socioeconomic standing of women in 14 Asia-Pacific ...
Reported cases of child pornography hit a record high 1,596 in 2012, up 9.7 percent from the previous year, the National Police Agency says.
Some 50 percent of men in their 40s to 60s in Japan say they would marry the same partner again, but the rate is below 40 percent for women in the same age bracket, a survey by major ad agency Hakuhodo Inc. showed Monday. ...
A man in his 30s, a former yakuza, dropped by to see Yukako Fukushima, 41, a prosthetics maker, to tell her some good news. “I got a job thanks to you,” said the man, who was wearing a pinkie Fukushima had made for him. ...
Itoko Uchida, 82, was counting on the nephew she raised to support her in old age. He refused, forcing her to pay for a sponsor to join the 420,000-long line of Japanese waiting for a nursing home bed. With no relatives willing to help, ...