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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
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 ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
President Barack Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who’s held it; ...
T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It’s a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became ...
President Barack Obama’s most recent budget request will reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion over the next decade compared with current law — almost entirely through higher taxes on the rich, large estates and smokers, congressional budget analysts said Friday. In addition to raising nearly ...
The ousted head of the U.S. tax agency apologized to Congress on Friday for his agency’s tougher treatment of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, saying it resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not bias. Lawmakers from both parties criticized ...
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave presidents to wage a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. Senior Defense Department ...
The controversy over the U.S. government’s secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators — and the White House is endorsing the idea. The proposal will not provide blanket protection ...
Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the new U.S. energy secretary. Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama’s first term. Moniz was an energy undersecretary ...
President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the federal tax authority Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the troubled agency amid the growing controversy over agents targeting conservative groups. After ...
President Barack Obama namez Daniel Russel, a close aide with expertise on Japan, as the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia.
The White House released 100 pages of emails Wednesday designed to defuse GOP claims of a coverup over the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi last year that killed four Americans. The documents show the development of the White House’s narrative in the ...
A South Korean presidential spokesman who was fired after inappropriately touching a woman during a U.S. trip blames a “cultural difference” with America. Other South Koreans say the fault for such incidents lies with a society that lets powerful men get away with harassment. ...
It was an article of faith among conservatives before Sen. Barack Obama became president, and has persisted through his re-election: America’s first black president and the supposedly liberal mainstream media enjoy a veritable love fest. The reality, at least among those who cover the ...