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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“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, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Residents of a New York City apartment building are up in arms over an exhibition of candid photographs one of their neighbors took of them without their knowledge or permission. “The Neighbors,” a gallery show of the pictures surreptitiously taken by American photographer Arne ...
As well as overhauling Britain's economy, Margaret Thatcher triggered a cultural revolution by igniting a creative burst of anger at her policies, including slashing arts funding.
Faced with flagging demand from their usual customer base of wealthy male patrons, a number of establishments employing traditional geisha entertainers are enthusiastically courting interest in their services from women. Last summer, Hamacho, a “ryotei” (traditional high-class restaurant) in Kochi, began offering a women-only ...
Nothing is more likely to inspire us to see for ourselves than a warning about the effects of looking. Take the media interest this month when it was revealed that the British Museum’s exhibition, “Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum,” is to include ...
An ancient statue of Mars has lost its fake penis and his counterpart Venus her hands, reversing the cosmetic changes ordered by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a newspaper reported Wednesday. In 2010, Berlusconi decided the two marble statues adorning the official residence ...
A contemporary art show featuring works of more than 200 artists from 23 countries and regions opened Wednesday on a cluster of 12 small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Setouchi Triennale 2013, the second of an event that happens every three years, is ...
Artwork by British graffiti artist Banksy that appeared listed for auction in the U.S. after disappearing from a London wall earlier this month has been withdrawn from sale, a council official said Sunday. The mural is of a boy making Union Jack bunting on ...