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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 ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has followed the lead of his U.S. and European counterparts in swinging from incremental moves to unprecedented stimulus.
The benchmark Nikkei stock index ends at its highest level since fall 2008 after briefly exceeding the 13,000 mark, buoyed by the Bank of Japan's easing steps.
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda reveals his strategy for ending more than a decade of deflation by expanding the central bank's purchases of government bonds and allowing it to buy riskier assets.
The Bank of Japan started a two-day policy meeting Wednesday amid speculation it will introduce a new monetary easing scheme and further ease monetary policy to achieve its 2 percent inflation target. At the first meeting chaired by new Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, the nine-member ...
More than 70 percent of the public expects prices to be higher a year from now, a quarterly survey carried out by the Bank of Japan said Monday. According to the survey, 74.2 percent of the respondents said prices will rise either considerably or ...
Confidence among large Japanese manufacturers improved in the first quarter, the Bank of Japan’s latest “tankan” business sentiment survey showed Monday, offering up cautious optimism from the country’s top firms. The results marked the first improvement in three quarters, with companies expecting a pickup ...
The Bank of Japan might combine two bond-buying programs to help achieve its 2 percent inflation target and clarify its actions to the market.
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda pledged Thursday to engage in aggressive monetary easing to achieve the central bank’s 2 percent inflation target and end the nation’s prolonged bout with deflation. “It is necessary to continue bold monetary easing in terms of quality and ...
Haruhiko Kuroda said he wants 2 percent inflation in two years and pledged to buy more government bonds, underscoring the new Bank of Japan chief’s efforts to accelerate an end to falling prices. “Achieving the 2 percent inflation target in two years is something ...
The Bank of Japan on Wednesday installed a new governor and two deputy governors who — in line with the wishes of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — are advocates of ultra-easy monetary policy. Attention is now focused on what specific policy actions the new ...
The Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey for March is expected to show that business sentiment among large manufacturers has improved for the first time in three quarters, according to estimates by 17 think tanks. The March survey, due on April 1, will be ...
New Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will appear before the Diet on Tuesday for a confirmation hearing to continue as central bank chief beyond the remaining term of his predecessor, lawmakers said Friday. Kuroda, a former Asian Development Bank president, has been appointed ...