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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 ...
Yokohama-based JGC Corp., which lost 10 employees during the Algerian hostage siege earlier this year, reported bumper profits Monday. The 10 Japanese workers, hired directly or indirectly by JGC Corp., including former Vice President Tadanori Aratani, were killed by heavily armed militants who overran ...
Struggling Sony books its first annual net profit in five years after restructuring offers a glimmer of hope for the once-iconic electronics giant.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. reports a group net loss of ¥685.29 billion for the business year ended in March, its third straight year in the red due to the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Apple reported Tuesday that its quarterly profit dipped for the first time in nearly a decade as it squeezed less money from its champions in the competitive smartphone and tablet markets. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers stepped in to bolster ...
Combined group pretax profits at major nonfinancial firms are expected to rise a moderate 3.4 percent in fiscal 2012 from the previous year, a recent tally showed. A number of domestic companies have revised their earnings estimates upward following the yen’s decline against major ...
JIJI Despite the yen’s rapid decline, more major Japanese companies are cutting their annual earnings projections rather than raising them, a survey says. As the earnings season gets under way, the survey released Saturday said that 72 companies had lowered their earnings projections for ...
Softbank Corp. almost doubled its group net profit in fiscal 2010 from to a record ¥189.71 billion on robust operations in its mainstay mobile phone service division. Its consolidated operating profit for the year that ended March 31 rose 35.1 percent to ¥629.16 billion ...