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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
My 15-year-old daughter had a warning for me. “You know, Mom,” she said, “you’ll probably be the only white person there.” It was July 2012, and we were headed to our first “Chinese volleyball” tournament, in New York City. I didn’t know what to expect. In fact, I wasn’t sure ...
Security videotape shows two daredevils dressed in black floating in parachutes from a height of about 40 stories before landing ...
A U.S. university student is eating his way through school — competitively. Computer engineering student Eric Dahl now ranks third ...
Johann Sebastian Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, with the “St. Matthew Passion” and the “Mass in B Minor” among the most sublime masterpieces in classical music. But biographers over the past half century have “sanitised” his life, in the belief that ...
When the singer Katy Perry spoke recently about her relationship with British comedian Russell Brand, not so long after their whirlwind courtship and immediately after their whirlwind divorce, she refrained from putting the boot in, despite Brand having ended the short marriage by text. ...
A mysterious clown dressed like the malevolent character from the Stephen King novel “It” has been terrifying residents with random appearances in the English town of Northampton. The true identity of the “Northampton Clown,” who wears a white mask with red hair like the ...
A 28-year-old British adventurer has become the first woman to row solo from Japan to Alaska, arriving late Monday at a small town in the Aleutian Islands after 150 days at sea. “I have had some of the most intense and memorable months of ...
A proposed name change is raising a stink in one Welsh village. Welsh-language campaigners say Varteg should be rebranded with a more authentic Welsh spelling — Y Farteg. The Welsh language has no letter v, though the sound is made by the letter f. ...
A San Francisco strip club is suing business software maker Oracle Corp. over an unpaid bill of more than $30,000 that was allegedly racked up on a company credit card. The New Century Theater says a man charged the amount to an Oracle credit ...
A stone monument of the Ten Commandments that sits on a street behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington and was the subject of controversy in the past has been toppled by vandals. The granite monument sits in front of the headquarters of Faith ...
Three sisters have been reunited in western New York some 73 years after their mother abandoned the older two and disappeared with the youngest one. The Daily News of Batavia reported Saturday that the three — 80-year-old Joan Billings, 78-year-old Shirley Mortellaro and 77-year-old ...
Queen Elizabeth II is so fond of her corgis that she personally supervises their daily meal and pours the gravy for them herself, according to a new book on British royal pets since the 16th century. “Pets by Royal Appointment,” by Brian Hoey, who ...
A Peruvian lawmaker has joined animal rights activists to try to halt the consumption of barbecued cat at an annual festival. The activists say at least 100 cats will be eaten at this weekend’s Santa Efigenia religious festival in the town of La Quebrada, ...
An animal-control officer had hundreds of snakes, including a pair of 2-meter Burmese pythons, at his home, from which he ran an illegal side business selling them, authorities said Thursday. Some 850 snakes worth $500,000 were found in a detached garage at the Shirley ...
Starbucks says guns are no longer welcome in its cafes, though it is stopping short of an outright ban on firearms. The fine line that the retailer is walking to address the concerns of both gun-rights and gun-control advocates reflects how heated the issue ...