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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear crisis were unparalled disasters, but people in and around Shizuoka Prefecture fear the ultimate catastrophe — the eruption of Mount Fuji — may be looming. “If Mount Fuji were to erupt, the consequences will be felt ...
Relatives of people killed in the March 11, 2011, tsunami filed Thursday for compensation from Tokyo Electric Power Co., arguing the nuclear crisis triggered that day delayed the search for their loved ones. The claim filed by 333 people from the town of Namie, ...
U.S. and Japanese nongovernmental organizations started a two-day meeting here Sunday to discuss how to deal with debris reaching the U.S. West Coast from the monster tsunami that hit the Tohoku region in March 2011 after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Participants include representatives ...
Kansai Electric Power Co. has decided to float bonds worth ¥20 billion to ¥30 billion later this month, the first debt issuance by a utility since the Fukushima nuclear crisis started in March 2011, sources said Wednesday. The utility believes it is better positioned ...
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan admitted Monday that the triple whammy that doomed the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in March 2011 — the megaquake, tsunami and the meltdowns they unleashed — was beyond the scope of the national crisis-management system. “The nuclear disaster ...
An American who has a soccer ball that floated across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska after being swept away from the Tohoku region during the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami says he was recently relieved to learn that the ball’s owner survived. David Baxter, ...
Harley-Davidson Motor Co. will display in its museum a motorcycle found last month on the shores of a western Canadian island and belonging to tsunami survivor Ikuo Yokoyama of Miyagi Prefecture. “He requested that the Harley-Davidson Museum preserve it and put it on display ...
A deep-sea drilling vessel has collected rock samples from 820 meters below the seabed near the epicenter of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology said. The maritime research agency said Friday the samples could be from an ...
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko chatted with about 100 people, many of them British, at a reception at the Japanese Embassy in London on Thursday, thanking them for their contribution to rescue efforts and donation drives after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The ...
Aftershocks of the giant earthquake of March 11, 2011, are expected to continue for at least several decades along the border of Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures, according to a study released Wednesday. Aftershocks, including those that can’t be felt by people, are likely to ...
People aged 66 and above accounted for 89.5 percent of the 1,632 deaths indirectly linked to the Great East Japan Earthquake as of March, the government said Friday. The total includes those whose health deteriorated after being evacuated in the aftermath of the twin ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday that it expects its group operating profit to nearly triple to ¥1 trillion for the business year ending next March, a sharp recovery from a disaster-plagued year that also saw the yen surge against major currencies. The bullish outlook ...