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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 ...
Japan’s exports of alcoholic beverages in 2012 rose 8.5 percent from the previous year to a record ¥20.6 billion, according to National Tax Agency data. The surge came partly because exports of beer and sake grew for a third consecutive year. Exports came to ...
Total shipments of beer and beerlike drinks dropped 1.0 percent last year to 438.11 million cases, hitting a record low for the eighth consecutive year, industry data showed Wednesday. Beer sales were hit by the economic slowdown and poor weather conditions in the latter ...
Washington AFP-JIJI The latest addition to America’s ever-growing list of craft beers gives new meaning to the time-honored idea of feeding leftovers to the dog. Dawg Grog, a nonalcoholic mock brew for canines, is the brainchild of Daniel Keeton, 32, who perfected it over ...