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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 ...
Fewer people in the Tokyo area cut back on air conditioner use to save electricity last summer compared with 2011, an online survey conducted by a Mizuho Financial Group think tank says. Power conservation dropped to 68 percent in 2012 from 80 percent in ...
Business sentiment at large companies improved in the first quarter of 2013 thanks to a weaker yen and higher stock prices, but most remain wary of increasing capital expenditures, the government said Tuesday. The confidence index covering firms capitalized at ¥1 billion or more ...
More people are willing to buy fresh food produced in areas endangered by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, an online survey by a government-owned lender said Monday. The survey was conducted by Japan Finance Corp., a policy-based lender owned by the Japanese government. According to ...
Japanese food has been ranked as the favorite foreign cuisine in six of the seven Asian, European and American markets subjected to a poll of consumers, the Japan External Trade Organization said Tuesday. The six markets are China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, France ...
Some 50 percent of men in their 40s to 60s in Japan say they would marry the same partner again, but the rate is below 40 percent for women in the same age bracket, a survey by major ad agency Hakuhodo Inc. showed Monday. ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet has become the first to exceed the 70 percent support rate threshold since September 2009, according to a new survey.
Only 13 percent of about 6,000 junior high and high school students in and around Tokyo think the use of “dappo habu” (quasi-legal drugs) is a matter of individual freedom, a poll showed Tuesday. Quasi-legal drugs are substances that are chemically similar in composition ...
Slightly more Japanese oppose allowing married couples to use separate family names than people who support changing the law, according to a new government survey.
Toyota Motor Corp. maintained first place in Japan’s Best Global Brands rankings for the fifth straight year, U.S. consulting firm Interbrand Corp. said Wednesday. Toyota was followed by Honda Motor Co. and Canon Inc. in the 2013 rankings. The top nine remained unchanged from ...
One of out every 10 women aged 24 or younger continues to smoke after becoming pregnant, an Environment Ministry survey said Sunday. The nationwide survey, conducted on some 33,000 pregnant women and their partners from 2011 to 2012, also said 63 percent of their ...
Some 88 percent of 168 Japanese companies in Africa that responded to a Japan External Trade Organization survey said they are worried about political and social instability on the continent. The findings of the poll, which was conducted between August and October last year, ...
More than 50 percent of Japanese mobile phone users in their 20s and 30s have smartphones, according to a new survey. The Jiji Press survey conducted last month found that smartphone users accounted for 64.8 percent of respondents in their 20s, up 22.7 percentage ...