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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
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 ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
Police were looking for two men Friday who allegedly robbed a 77-year-old woman of nearly ¥10 million after she was lured to Yanaka Cemetery in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on the pretense of bringing cash to help her son out of a jam the previous ...
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence are upheld on the first appeal in a case that could see him barred from public office for five years.
Prosecutors in Italy are seeking to seize €1.8 billion ($2.4 billion) in assets from Nomura Holdings Inc. as part of an investigation into Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA’s use of derivatives to hide losses. Sadeq Sayeed, Nomura’s former European head, and Raffaele ...
Shortly after 5:15 p.m. on Nov. 10, a jogger turned into Granville Road in Weybridge, southern England, running along the hedge-lined street of one of Britain’s wealthiest enclaves. Then, 50 meters from his home, he staggered into the road and died. In the days ...
Monetary harm from “furikome” phone fraud involving bank transfers increased 27.1 percent in 2012 to ¥16.16 billion, up for the third straight year, the National Policy Agency said Thursday. The monthly total surpassed ¥2 billion in October and December, approaching the peak levels seen ...