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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
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 ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
With its gay bars and same-sex couples publicly displaying affection, the Tanjong Pagar district offers a glimpse of a Singapore whose outlook contrasts with its more conservative image. Located in the city’s central business area, it is also home to offices and government buildings. ...
Rights activists reacted with indignation Wednesday after Singapore’s High Court rejected a petition to repeal an archaic law criminalizing sex between men. In a ruling issued the day before, the court said it was up to Parliament to repeal a controversial provision in the ...
Rights activists reacted with indignation Wednesday after Singapore’s High Court rejected a petition to repeal an archaic law criminalizing sex between men. In a ruling issued the day before, the court said it was up to Parliament to repeal a controversial provision in the ...
Singapore on Monday tightened curbs on foreign labor for a fourth consecutive year, as the government seeks to reduce companies’ reliance on overseas workers amid a public backlash over the influx. The government will increase levies that companies must pay for lower-skilled foreign employees ...
Singapore’s biggest protest in decades shows that the ruling party for over half a century is facing a more vocal electorate and must change or watch its popularity slide further, analysts say. At least 3,000 Singaporeans chanted “we want change” and endured heavy downpours ...
Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) suffered a rebuke Saturday when it lost a parliamentary by-election despite promising more reforms and massive public spending to appease a restive electorate. The opposition Workers’ Party defeated the PAP, which has been in power for more than ...
Singapore on Friday made it costlier for foreigners to buy property and imposed other measures to cool down a market in which home prices have continued to rise despite an economic slowdown. Starting Saturday, foreign buyers will have to pay total stamp duties of ...