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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-bomb survivors are finding ways to support youths in Fukushima so they don't grow up feeling like society abandoned them over radiation fears.
A former Australian prisoner of war, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki will apply for a special hibakusha health-care certificate so he can receive medical allowances from Japan, a group supporting overseas A-bomb survivors said Wednesday. Allan Chick, 93, who lives ...
Top officials of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sent letters to the U.S. government Tuesday to protest two rounds of tests on the properties of plutonium, conducted by a federally funded lab last year. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa ...
Beijing and Tokyo may hold bilateral friendship committee meetings in Japan later this month that will be joined by former Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, Chinese government sources said. According to the sources, the meetings of the New Japan-China Friendship Committee for the 21st ...
An exhibition based on the 1945 A-bombing of Nagasaki began Monday in Khartoum to inspire a country hit by a decades-long civil war that killed 2 million people before it ended in 2005. “We want to convey to Sudanese people how Nagasaki recovered from ...
Mayors of the only two cities ever attacked with atomic weapons, survivors of the explosions in 1945 and relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents blasted Pyongyang on Tuesday for conducting its third nuclear test despite strong international calls not to do ...
A Russian tall ship recognized as the world’s biggest sail ship arrived in Nagasaki on Monday during its first round-the-world voyage since its construction in 1921. About 160 trainees and crew members of the four-masted Sedov were welcomed with a traditional dragon dance performance ...
27th in a series Takuma Fukuyama, 77, removes the red Smart Cover on his iPad 2, pushes the home button, taps an icon and then flicks and scrolls it until he arrives at the page he is looking for. He then pulls out a ...