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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.
The U.S. State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting the project will have little impact on climate change. Canada’s oil sands will be developed even if U.S. President Barack Obama denies a permit to the pipeline connecting the region to Gulf ...
Spending cuts will start hitting an array of U.S. government programs following the failure of President Barack Obama and Republicans ...
Panasonic Corp. is developing a tablet computer for business customers that runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system under ...
The president of All Nippon Airways, Boeing’s biggest single customer for its troubled 787 Dreamliner, said Friday he believes the U.S. manufacturer has made progress in resolving problems with the aircraft’s lithium-ion batteries. How soon Boeing can fix the problems, which have led to ...
Microsoft Corp.’s first-ever tablet computer will hit the Japanese market in two weeks, the company said Friday, hoping to break the iPad’s domination. Five months after its debut in several other countries, Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet will reach store shelves here March 15, Microsoft ...
Consumer prices fell 0.2 percent in January from a year earlier for the third straight month of decline, due mainly to a drop in household durable goods, including air conditioners, the government said Friday. The core consumer price index, excluding fresh foods, stood at ...
After protests erupted across China last year over the Senkaku Islands, sales of Japanese-branded cars there plummeted. Nissan Motor Co.’s prescription for winning back Chinese drivers: a quieter ride and better gas mileage. Nissan introduced its new Teana sedan Tuesday in the southern city ...
Japan’s purchases of U.S. Treasuries helped it overtake China last June as the largest foreign holder of American securities, including equities, asset-backed paper and U.S. government debt, Treasury Department figures show. Tokyo’s total holdings of all types of U.S. securities grew to $1.84 trillion ...
The unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent in January from a revised 4.3 percent in December for the first improvement in three months as more women found jobs, government data showed Friday. But an official in the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said the ...
Shiseido Co., the nation’s largest maker of cosmetics, will abolish animal testing for products to be developed from April at both domestic and overseas laboratories, as alternative methods have been established. In a news release, the company said the decision was made at meeting ...
Narita International Airport Corp. will lower landing fees in April for international airlines that launch new routes or additional flights. The reduced fees will apply to airlines that have more cumulative landing weight in a half-year period than in the corresponding period in the ...
Japan will help Myanmar develop a system to increase intellectual property protection, officials said Thursday. Under a new agreement, the Japan Patent Office will offer advice and expertise to Myanmar to help it create the necessary laws for enhancing intellectual property protection, the officials ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration will take “drastic” measures to revitalize the economy, Finance Minister Taro Aso pledged Thursday, suggesting that previous policies had been insufficient to beat back more than a decade of deflation. “Deflation is a deep-rooted problem that has undermined the ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. may suspend power supply to companies and factories that are refusing to accept the utility’s higher electricity rates, which it has increased since last April by an average of 14.9 percent, a company official said Wednesday. The utility, which is ...
Eight major Japanese automakers reported Wednesday their combined domestic output in January fell 10.6 percent from a year earlier to 714,580 vehicles as domestic sales sagged after the end of government subsidies for eco-friendly vehicle purchases. Their domestic production declined for the fifth straight ...
