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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
Asia-Pacific finance chiefs vowed to work together to further local growth during the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting, but acute friction among the region’s three largest economies — China, Japan and South Korea — cast a shadow over this ambition. With no signs of ...
Emerging Asia needs to be on guard against “asset bubbles” as central banks around the globe loosen monetary policy, Asia Development Bank Managing Director Rajat Nag warned. “The positive thing of quantitative easing out of Japan and other economies is that they will start ...
Finance ministers and central bank governors from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were set to agree on enhancing financial cooperation when they met Friday on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting. With Japan looking to deepen economic ties ...
Takehiko Nakao, former vice finance minister for international affairs, was named new president of the Asian Development Bank, the organization said Friday. The nation’s former top financial diplomat was the sole candidate and will formally take over ADB on Sunday, the Manila-based institution said. ...
Japan announced Thursday that it will nominate its top currency official, Takehiko Nakao, to head the Asian Development Bank as Haruhiko Kuroda prepares to step down to lead the Bank of Japan. Nakao has “extensive experience in international finance and development,” Finance Minister Taro ...
Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda voices support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's financial policies but keeps mum about speculation he may become the next Bank of Japan governor.