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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 ...
A 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab, in an experimental technique that could help women in their early 40s who have trouble getting pregnant because of their age, Japanese researchers find.
Genes causing a type of leukemia that mainly strikes children with Down syndrome have been discovered by a team of ...
A team of researchers, including scientists from Hiroshima University, has identified a gene that acts to suppress the onset of ...
One thing about having a nuclear accident in a rich country is that at least there is going to be good medical care and long-term monitoring. The repair and clean-up operation is another matter, of course — which is why Japan is currently under ...
Many expatriates who face problems adjusting to the cultural differences of Japan tend to abuse alcohol and other drugs to deal with the stress of the transition, according to a Polish psychologist and therapist who counsels foreign residents in Japan. “Many people are not ...
Japanese scientists launch a sperm bank for endangered animals that uses freeze-drying technology they hope could one day help humans re-create animal populations on other planets.
An Okayama University team’s poll of 557 pregnant women has found that 5.7 percent would have an abortion if an initial blood test indicated the likelihood of fetal chromosomal abnormalities. The survey was the first large-scale study on pregnant women in Japan after a ...
Experts suspect a computer programming error and lax preliminary checks were among the reasons Japan’s newest rocket didn’t get off the ground Tuesday. The computer controlling the launch of the three-stage Epsilon rocket at the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture detected an abnormality ...
Imagine standing in the middle of Angkor Thom in Cambodia, located next to Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, and seeing the ancient capital come to life in its entirety in front of you in three dimensions — the way it ...
Teens injured or disabled by cervical cancer vaccines step up efforts to permanently end the subsidy program for Cervarix and Gardasil.
A project to build a 30-km-long straight linear accelerator and answer questions about the beginnings of the universe chooses the Kitakami mountain area as a candidate site.
Final arguments from the defence and prosecution were heard in mid-July, and the world court is now considering its judgment. At issue is Japan’s right to conduct its seasonal “scientific” whaling program in Antarctic waters. But the case has involved arguments about how to ...
Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. said Friday it has found another 1,641 people suffering from blotches as a result of its skin-whitening cosmetics. The new cases, discovered during door-to-door visits to consumers complaining of patchy skin whitening after using the products, brings the total number of ...
Reported cases in Japan of hand, foot and mouth disease, a viral illness commonly found in children, have topped 130,000 since the beginning of the year, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Tuesday. According to the institute, 133,802 people had been sickened as ...
The health ministry has instructed Novartis Pharma K.K. to state in an attached note for its Diovan blood pressure-lowering drug that the medicine may cause serious skin disorders. Diovan, whose generic name is valsartan, has been cited in a recent suspected case of clinical ...