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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 World Trade Organization has settled on Roberto Azevedo of Brazil, a well-known diplomat and consummate insider in Geneva circles, to serve as its director general for the next four years, officials said Tuesday. The directorship is chosen by consensus in a complex and ...
The World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body has issued a ruling that broadly backs the arguments of Japan and the European Union over the Canadian province of Ontario’s preferential treatment for local firms in promoting renewable energy. The final decision issued Monday by the Appellate ...
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the Bank of Japan’s recently announced new monetary easing is “a positive step.” In a speech Wednesday at the Economic Club of New York, the head of the International Monetary Fund noted the emergence of a “three-speed” global ...
The World Trade Organization is calling on Japan to make bold structural reforms while offering broad support for its current money-easing policies. “Members felt that the accommodative macroeconomic policies being pursued, particularly by the new government, can help Japan to recover from the recent ...
The U.S. Congress drew a furious response from the Kremlin on Thursday after passing legislation that targeted human rights abusers in the prison death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Voting 92-4, the Senate approved establishing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia, ending Cold ...