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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. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
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 ...
China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. The seizure of the Liaoning-based boat ...
As the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by entrepreneurs, a businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors. Lin Haiyan was convicted of “illegal fund-raising” for collecting 640 million yuan ($100 million) from ...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday he has agreed with his Chinese counterpart to make a new push to settle a long-running border row, pledging his commitment to “peace and tranquility.” “We agreed that our special representatives will meet soon to continue discussions seeking ...
India says all issues will be “on the table,” including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the South Asian giant, which started Sunday. At the same time, New Delhi thinks “very highly” of Li’s ...
Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China’s domestic satellite navigation system, which was launched as a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, a report said Saturday. The Beidou, or Compass, system started providing services to civilians in the ...
China is phasing out its reliance on executed prisoners for donated organs, but an architect of the country’s transplant system said Friday that ingrained cultural attitudes are impeding the rise of donations among the general population. Almost all donated organs in China used to ...
In the annals of bizarre bureaucratic desk jobs, the Chinese government may have all others beat. Officials in charge of censoring pornography for the southern province of Hunan gave a rare and revealing peek into the strange (and quite possibly libido-numbing) demands of their ...
China on Tuesday denounced Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s remarks that the “comfort women” were necessary for Japanese soldiers during the war. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters the conscription of the comfort women, using the Japanese euphemism for the girls and women ...
Police raids on brothels in China have a pattern, sex workers say, often occurring a few days ahead of politically sensitive events or whenever someone in government orders an antipornography campaign to please the leadership. It is during these times, the workers say, that ...
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a powerful economic planning official accused by a prominent journalist of corruption, the latest high-level target of the new leadership’s antigraft drive. The Communist Party’s disciplinary agency said in a one-sentence statement on its website that Liu ...
Three Chinese maritime surveillance ships entered Japanese territorial waters Monday near the Senkaku Islands, the Japan Coast Guard said. In a separate incident near the area, an unidentified submarine was spotted by a P-3C Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol aircraft sailing in Japan’s contiguous zone ...
A transsexual woman in Hong Kong won a groundbreaking court appeal Monday allowing her to marry her boyfriend and forcing the government to rewrite the city’s marriage laws. The woman, in her 30s, known in the Court of Final Appeal as “W” under anonymity ...