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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 ...
KDDI and Softbank said Tuesday that they posted record high sales and operating profit in the business year through March 31 thanks to the hugely popularity of the Apple iPhone, which is continuing to contribute to their growth. Non-iPhone provider NTT DoCoMo reported last ...
Mobile phone carriers NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KDDI Corp. are involved in separate international efforts to develop new smartphone systems aimed at taking on their rivals who control 90 percent of the global market. DoCoMo, Fujitsu Ltd., Britain’s Vodafone PLC and seven other companies ...
Faced with tapped out markets at home, the United States and Europe, KDDI Corp. is weighing a foray into Myanmar’s mobile phone market that would be part of an overseas push centered on mainland Asia, company officials said Saturday. Working with Sumitomo Corp., the ...