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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 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to go to Brunei, Cambodia and Laos — the three ASEAN nations he has yet to visit since taking office — before a special summit in December in Tokyo between Japan and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian ...
The number of households on welfare hit an all-time high of 1,588,521 in July, up 5,213 from the month before, the welfare ministry said Wednesday. Individual recipients rose by 5,824 to 2,158,946. Households consisting of people aged 65 or over accounted for 715,072, or ...
A Guam judge on Wednesday scheduled a second psychiatric evaluation of the suspect in a stabbing rampage that killed three Japanese tourists and wounded 11 others. Judge Anita Sukola said Karen Fukutaki from the Judiciary of Colorado will re-examine Chad De Soto, 21, on ...
Crown Princess Masako on Tuesday night joined Crown Prince Naruhito at the last minute for a classical music concert in Tokyo marking the opening of an annual art festival hosted by the Cultural Affairs Agency. The Crown Prince had been scheduled to attend the ...
Veteran TV celebrity Monta Mino’s son has admitted stealing a man’s bag on a street, police said Wednesday. Yuto Minorikawa, 31, who works at Nippon TV, allegedly told the police, “I thought I would take whatever money I found.” He had consistently denied stealing ...
Power shortages are unlikely this winter even if all of the country's 50 reactors remain offline, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry says.
Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, said Tuesday it has stopped asking on birth registration forms whether a baby was born out of wedlock, the first city in Japan to do so. However, the new form is optional: It doesn’t replace an existing form with “legitimate” and ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe goes ahead with raising the consumption tax while also offering a ¥5 trillion stimulus package to offset the negative impact on consumer spending.
Japan ranks 15th among 122 countries in the World Economic Forum’s first Human Capital Index report on countries’ abilities to develop and deploy healthy, educated and able workers, the forum said Tuesday. The report by the forum, known for its annual meeting of leaders ...
Maritime Self-Defense Force training vessels on a round-the-world voyage arrive in Myanmar on Monday for a five-day mission, marking the first-ever port call by an MSDF vessel to the country.
An expert panel to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed bolstering support for Japanese-language education in ASEAN countries by increasing the number of teachers, as more people in the region are learning Japanese. The proposal, submitted to Abe on Monday, calls for boosting the ...
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Toshimitsu Motegi has suggested he supports local calls to scrap the Fukushima No. 2 nuclear plant, located near the stricken Fukushima No. 1 complex. “Thinking about the current feelings of the people in Fukushima Prefecture, I don’t think ...