In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Sales of luxury goods at domestic department stores are rapidly growing, as the economy shows signs of life apparently due to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies, dubbed “Abenomics.” “Buying appetite among the rich has been on the rise,” said an official at Sogo ...
The government will nominate Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda as the next Bank of Japan governor and scholar Kikuo Iwata as one of two deputy governors.
Since mid-November, the yen has weakened substantially against the dollar, the euro and other currencies. The rapid decline was fueled by aggressive policy announcements by Shinzo Abe, before and after he became the prime minister in December, calling for more fiscal stimulus and for ...
Despite skepticism from G-20 countries, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may continue his extreme monetary easing until the Upper House election to maintain his approval rating.
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 financial leaders’ meeting, Finance Minister Taro Aso found himself sought out by many of his counterparts, who expressed a keen interest in Japan’s economic and monetary policies, a government source said. Attending his first G-20 gathering ...
The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rises nearly 2 percent as the yen tumbles against the dollar, helping Japan's exporting companies.
Japanese securities industry officials are inviting institutional investors in London to invest in Japanese stocks by underscoring the expected effects of the Abe administration’s economic policies. In a keynote speech Tuesday at the Japan Securities Summit held by the Japan Securities Dealers Association, Atsushi ...
Tokyo stocks have surged over the past 2½ months, propelled to their highest in 33 months by monetary and fiscal stimulus measures being advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and receding jitters over the global economy. While many market analysts predict the Tokyo market ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” economic policies retain fiscal expansion as a key pillar of the draft budget for the next fiscal year, fanning concern that Japan’s swelling debt could hamper the broader economy in the longer term. An insufficient commitment to putting the ...
