In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Since mid-November, the yen has weakened substantially against the dollar, the euro and other currencies. The rapid decline was fueled by aggressive policy announcements by Shinzo Abe, before and after he became the prime minister in December, calling for more fiscal stimulus and for ...
Recent concerns about competitive currency devaluations are “overstated,” according to the International Monetary Fund. The yen’s recent sharp fall has sparked concerns about competitive devaluations, the IMF said Thursday in a report on global prospects and policy challenges. “Taking a broader perspective, however, such ...
The yen's slide may ripple through domestic firms beyond exporters, underscoring pressure on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to prevent the currency rebounding from close to its lowest level since 2010.
Construction equipment maker Komatsu Ltd., which has seen sales fall for seven consecutive quarters in China, expects demand there to recover this year, aided by stimulus spending. The world’s top producer of diggers and the second-biggest maker of bulldozers and dump trucks after Peoria, ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday the government has no intention of buying foreign bonds through a fund with the Bank of Japan, comments that caused the yen to strengthen. “We don’t intend to buy foreign bonds,” Aso told reporters in Tokyo, when asked ...
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called on the Group of 20 to denounce the “manipulation” of currency rates, reflecting concerns that Japan is trying to push down the yen to gain a trading advantage. “Exchange rates shouldn’t be manipulated,” Schaeuble told reporters after a ...
The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rises nearly 2 percent as the yen tumbles against the dollar, helping Japan's exporting companies.
Market players will closely monitor discussions on currencies at the upcoming meeting of finance ministries and central bank chiefs of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies, Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JP Morgan Securities Japan Co., said in a recent interview. A ...
The pace of the yen’s weakening has been too swift, Finance Minister Taro Aso said, speaking a week before a meeting of global finance chiefs at which Japan’s currency policy is expected to come under the microscope. Aso’s comments to reporters in Tokyo on ...
The yen’s recent plunge may help the nation’s struggling electronics makers recover from massive losses, but it could also hamper their restructuring efforts in the long run. After reporting huge group net losses for the April to December period on Friday, senior officials of ...
Don’t count Honda among the exporters preparing for a financial bonanza from the tumbling yen.
Finance Minister Taro Aso countered Monday the rising voices of criticism from the international community over the weakening yen. “Petty complaints about the depreciation of the yen by ¥10 or ¥15 at the most is wrong and illogical,” Aso, also deputy prime minister, said ...
