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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 ...
The controversy over the U.S. government’s secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators — and the White House is endorsing the idea. The proposal will not provide blanket protection ...
It was an article of faith among conservatives before Sen. Barack Obama became president, and has persisted through his re-election: America’s first black president and the supposedly liberal mainstream media enjoy a veritable love fest. The reality, at least among those who cover the ...
An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security when they broke into the primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium in the U.S. It took the jury about 2½ hours to find the three guilty of a charge of ...
Disappointing expectations that the megaquake and tsunami two years ago — and subsequent nuclear calamity — would trigger a rebirth of politics and government, Japan’s key policies remain largely unchanged, says Richard Samuels, director of the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of ...
A total of 1,009 targeted email cyber-attacks hit Japanese companies and other institutions last year, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The NPA arrived at the figure after analyzing information collected from around 4,900 companies and research organizations in the fields of defense and ...
The trade ministry plans to beef up its database for cyber-attacks against Japanese companies and institutions to help analyze the latest trends and methods so they can protect themselves from organized assaults. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has already earmarked ¥800 million ...
Police on the Pacific island of Guam have beefed up patrols in the wake of the Feb. 12 rampage by a 21-year-old local man at a key tourist spot that left three Japanese tourists dead and 11 other people wounded. Guam police Chief Fred ...
With Beijing growing in strength, a U.S. scholar is calling for a major rethink on Taiwan in which the island cuts its troop numbers in half and rebrands its army as a self-defense force. The proposal marks a rare break from the conventional view ...
The government is moving to strengthen the security of Japanese citizens in northwestern Africa in the wake of last week’s deadly hostage crisis in Algeria. The Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it will temporarily shut down the Japanese Embassy in Bamako, Mali’s capital, due to ...
In subzero winter cold, trainees at an army base outside Beijing wake before dawn to practice martial arts and evasive driving, while a former Portuguese Special Forces soldier barks commands. “We are not polite any more . . . we are only efficient,” declared ...