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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 ...
A growing number of South Korean corporations are turning their backs on a workaholic culture that once was seen as indispensable but increasingly is viewed as unhealthy, unproductive and inefficient. Long working hours, often followed by drinking sessions with the boss, have for years ...
Six pregnant Asian women stroll across a road in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Two others cross the road in the opposite direction. In a nearby store, around 10 such women compare baby clothing. Nearby, a string of “maternity hotels” — where Asian women, ...
“I think my friends are a little jealous, because I’ve got two mommies and two daddies and they’ve only got two parents,” said Simon, 6, squirming with his 3-year-old brother, Joaquin, on the knees of their four gay parents. While Britain and France in ...