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A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 320 kph. At least 91 ...
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 ...
Masumi Muramatsu, an interpreter and former chairman of Simul International Inc., died March 3, his family said Thursday. He was 82. Muramatsu is known as a pioneer in the field of simultaneous interpretation and participated in the foundation of Simul International, Japan’s first group ...
Former lawyer Kohei Nakabo, who led the Resolution and Collection Corporation's efforts to clean up Japan's housing loan crisis in the '90s, dies of heart failure.
Famed anthropologist Masao Yamaguchi died of pneumonia at a hospital in Mitaka, western Tokyo, early Sunday. He was 81. After graduating from the department of Japanese history at the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Letters, Yamaguchi studied anthropology at the graduate school of now-defunct ...
Mineo Nakajima, president of Akita International University and former president of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, died of pneumonia on Feb. 14 at a hospital in the city of Akita. He was 76. Nakajima was a scholar in modern Chinese studies and an avid ...
The late Etsuko Takano, general manager of Iwanami Hall, a Tokyo movie theater famous for showing foreign art films, played a pioneering role in bringing international masterpieces to the silver screen in Japan before the age of the Internet and cable television. Takano died ...
His obituary was not carried by major media, but Nobuyuki Ogasawara left a distinctive mark on Japanese journalism. Far from being a star journalist, he earned his living and secured his reporting expenses mainly as a writing course instructor at cram schools, but the ...
Hiroshi Nakajima, former director general of the World Health Organization, died Saturday in France after a short illness, the Geneva-based health organization said Monday. He was 84. After a career in neuropharmacology research, Nakajima joined the WHO in 1974, where he served as director ...
Former yokozuna Taiho, whose record of 32 championships stands to this day, died at age 72 on Saturday in a Tokyo hospital, the Japan Sumo Association announced. Taiho, whose real name was Koki Naya, was a member of the Nishonoseki stable, which will close ...