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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 ...
Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Monday started manufacturing a jointly developed minivehicle to be launched on June 6 across Japan. The two automakers together command about 10 percent of the minivehicle market. By cooperating, they think they can increase that to around 20 percent, they said. The ...
The government on Monday upgraded the economy for the first time in two months by deleting the word “weak” from ...
Japanese biotech ventures promising to make jet fuel from algae and to produce synthetic cartilage are soaring in Tokyo trading ...
KDDI Corp. said Monday it will begin selling four new smartphones this summer, including the HTC J One, the Japanese version of an internationally renowned model by Taiwanese maker HTC Corp. featuring enhanced sound. Buyers who sign a two-year contract can get the HTC ...
Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex color-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. They work with a power system that would have seemed equally futuristic not so long ago. It is ...
Yahoo Inc.’s board has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr Inc., a service that hosts 108 million blogs, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter. Tumblr will continue to operate as an independent business and a deal was ...
The yen climbed versus a majority of its 16 major peers after economy minister Akira Amari said further losses in the currency would negatively affect the people, and the government’s job is to minimize that. The yen retreated from near its weakest point in ...
The dollar hovered in a tight range mostly above ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading Monday, as currency players found it difficult to tilt their positions either way on a lack of fresh trading factors. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102.53-53, almost unchanged from ...
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. aims to boost its group sales to ¥4 trillion in the business year ending in March 2015, from projected sales of ¥3.81 trillion in fiscal 2013 by expanding key operations, including elevator production and sales overseas, the firm’s president said Monday. ...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Monday that it plans to invest as much as ¥50 billion in renewable energy projects in Japan in the next five years, tapping demand for electricity produced from solar and wind-power generators. The Wall Street firm also plans to ...
Stocks gained further ground Monday as the yen weakened on the back of improved U.S. economic data, with the benchmark Nikkei average ending at a fresh 64-month high. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed up 222.69 points, or 1.47 percent, at 15,360.81, the highest closing ...
Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to expand lithium-ion battery production fivefold for its hybrid vehicles, sources said. The automaker currently uses nickel-metal hydride batteries in its flagship Prius and other hybrid vehicles but is now set to shift to lithium-ion batteries to boost fuel ...
The chairman and other executives of Keidanren plan to tour the battered Fukushima No. 1 power plant, the influential business lobby said Monday. The corporate executives are making the trip so the group, also called the Japan Business Federation, can make policy recommendations to ...
Japan is hoping LNG from the U.S. shale gas boom will give it the power to rework bruising long-term contracts linked to oil prices.
Two mind-sets seem to be catching on in Japan these days. They worry me. One is the notion that something has to be useful to be of value. The other is that anything is justifiable on the grounds that everybody else is doing it. ...