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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 ...
Facing questions from an opposition lawmaker Thursday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe refused to comment on the government’s position on wartime sex slaves, but he did say he feels “heart-breaking pain” when he thinks of how their human rights were violated. “In this sense, I’m ...
Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda lashed out Wednesday at the massive ¥4.7 trillion public works spending package compiled by the Liberal Democratic Party. In the first question-and-answer session in the Diet since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy speech Monday, Kaieda said, “the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he will present his basic policy on whether Japan should join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations before the Upper House election in the summer. Appearing on television Tuesday, Abe stressed he has no intention of putting the thorny issue ...
With his harsh criticism of the Bank of Japan in the spotlight, Shinzo Abe's economic brain, Koichi Hamada, says it is a big step forward for the central bank to finally adopt the new prime minister's 2 percent inflation target.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday signaled his determination to overcome Japan’s persistent deflation in a prerecorded video message shown at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We will promptly put into action measures that can pull Japan out of its long years ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has explained his government’s drastic monetary measures to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who voiced concern about the unorthodox policy earlier in the week, government officials said. Abe’s remarks during the 20-minute phone call Friday were aimed at reassuring Berlin after ...
Police on Friday turned over to prosecutors their case against a 25-year-old man in Okayama Prefecture who last year allegedly emailed a death threat to Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe, the current prime minister, as well as other intimidating messages to other targets. ...
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe started discussions Thursday on education reform, which he says is essential for building a stronger nation. “To re-create a strong Japan, it is essential to revive the education of the children who will be responsible for the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday called on his Cabinet members, corporate leaders and economic experts to cooperate in mapping out growth strategies to “regain a strong economy” through the combined efforts of the government and private sector. During the first meeting of the ...
Japan should use the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade framework to revitalize its economy, former Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi said in a recent interview. “Japan can use the TPP to take advantage of economic dynamism in the Asia-Pacific region and revitalize its own economy. This ...
Kyoto University professor Satoshi Fujii, an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on disaster prevention and reduction, emphasized the need to build up the nation’s infrastructure, lauding a ¥20.2 trillion economic package featuring public works that the government has recently adopted. The well-known advocate ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided not to announce whether Japan will join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama in February, informed sources said Saturday. The decision was shelved by strong opposition from members of his conservative Liberal ...