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Is it a sign of a full-fledged economic recovery or a looming catastrophe in the monetary making? Recent spikes in Japan’s long-term interest rate, represented by the 10-year government bond, have created a stir and roused a deep sense of alarm among investors and ...
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 ...
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, ...
An Australian choreographer alleged Thursday that Michael Jackson sexually abused him for seven years as a child, a claim the late singer’s estate described as “outrageous and sad.” Wade Robson — who testified at Jackson’s infamous 2005 molestation trial that the star never touched ...
South Korean President Park Geun Hye personally apologized Monday for an “unsavory” incident during her U.S. summit visit that led to the dismissal of her chief spokesman. Yoon Chang Jung was sacked over allegations that he had sexually harassed a female intern — a ...
With U.S. kidnap victim Michelle Knight now free, a horrifying story is emerging of chronic abuse and trauma well before her 11 years of captivity in the Cleveland “house of horrors” began. The 32-year-old, one of three women dramatically rescued from a home in ...
The brothers of the U.S. man charged with kidnapping and raping three women, locking them in his home for a decade, said in an interview aired Sunday that they had no idea what was happening. “If I knew that my brother was doing this, ...
Shorty needed a ride home. She got confused sometimes, the result of some undefined mental condition, and wasn’t always sure where she’d wandered. Her family knew this about Michelle “Shorty” Knight, all 139 cm of her, and that’s why they worried. She got in ...
Year after year, the clock ticked on and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare. Now, for the women freed from captivity inside a Cleveland house, the ordeal is not ...
A DNA test has confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a Cleveland house for about a decade: Ariel Castro, suspected of kidnapping and raping them, is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along ...
The three women held in captivity inside a U.S. home for about a decade were starved and raped, and one woman had five pregnancies aborted when the suspect punched her in the stomach. A prosecutor said he may seek the death penalty for the ...
An air force general has run afoul of Congress for granting clemency to a convicted sex offender without any public explanation, the latest case to raise fundamental questions about how the military justice system handles sex crimes. The case is the second this year ...
A deputy speaker of Britain’s lower house of Parliament was arrested Saturday on suspicion of raping one man and sexually assaulting another, according to media reports. Nigel Evans, a lawmaker in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party, was reportedly questioned over the alleged attacks ...
When Elisabeth Fritzl emerged in April 2008 to her first breath of fresh air and ray of sunlight in a quarter of a century, she had been raped countless times by her father, Josef, and had borne him seven children. Five years after the ...