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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 U.S. Congressional Research Service has noted that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s comments and actions on historical issues “have raised concern that Tokyo could upset regional relations in ways that hurt U.S. interests.” In a report dated May 1, the research arm of Congress ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the administration’s key economic panel will hold a meeting to carefully examine whether the Bank of Japan’s drastic monetary easing has begun to improve people’s livelihoods. Abe made the remark Tuesday amid growing concern that the central bank’s easing ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had to dispel suspicions Sunday that a Yomiuri Giants uniform he received as a gift at the People’s Honor Award ceremony was linked to his plan to weaken Article 96 of the Constitution. The jersey he received bears the number ...
The accomplishments of the first 100 days in office are a favorite benchmark for democratic leaders. It’s thought to offer a preview of his or her worldview, ambition and political fortune. So, viewed through this lens, just how is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe doing? ...
Kyodo To celebrate the Children’s Day national holiday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday invited kids to ask him questions using LINE, a popular smartphone application that provides free calls and messaging. “Working as prime minister, I usually have few chances to talk with ...
Prime Minister Abe's proposal to expand child care leave to three years is upsetting some firms because it runs against current programs designed to support working parents.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has urged opposition groups Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) and Your Party to help him revise Article 96 of the Constitution to make it easier to amend the supreme code. “I’m asking for cooperation in forming a majority” ...
The Liberal Democratic Party has a thing for archery. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s financial policies comprise “three arrows.” The symbolism is based on the old Japanese saying, “Three arrows are harder to break.” Since “Abenomics” has proven to be a PR success, at least ...
With constitutional revision emerging as the primary issue in the Upper House poll, proponents and opponents use Constitution Day to press their cases.
Japan and the United Arab Emirates sign a nuclear cooperation agreement, giving Prime Minister Abe a victory on his post-3/11 atomic sales tour.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he sees no need to explain to China and South Korea his cherished goal of rewriting the pacifist Constitution. “It is our country’s Constitution, so it is not an issue that needs to be explained” to China and South ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Tuesday with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to launch working-level talks aimed at negotiating an accord on acquiring Japanese nuclear technologies, a Japanese government official said. “Japan is enhancing the safety level of its nuclear plants” following the 2011 Fukushima ...