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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 praised by the head of the U.N. agency promoting women's rights for his speech last week but faces criticism from Time magazine.
Four families from Myanmar arrived Friday night in Tokyo on a pilot U.N. refugee resettlement program introduced in fiscal 2010. The families are from ethnic minorities in Myanmar and had been living in a refugee camp in Thailand, across the border. After a 180-day ...
Sunday’s mayoral contest in Sakai, one of Japan’s most independent-minded cities, is expected to decide not only the fate of a plan to merge Osaka prefectural cities into a single administrative entity, but also the fate of national-level efforts to create a new opposition ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he doesn't have a specific time frame for changing the ban on collective self-defense as he prepares to address the U.N. General Assembly.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper were expected to confirm cooperation in free trade, defense and energy during talks to be held later Tuesday in Ottawa. Abe and Harper were to focus on trade liberalization within bilateral and multilateral frameworks, ...
Japan has joined the Equal Futures Partnership, a multilateral initiative aimed at increasing the political and economic presence of women. “I would like to affirm our resolve to work with you all to expand participation in economic and political spheres by women both in ...
The Chinese captain arrested after his fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol ships in 2010 was freed by government intervention, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku disclosed in a recent interview. Sengoku is the first member of then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s Cabinet to admit ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Canada and the United States for political talks and to attend a U.N. meeting to pledge support for Syrian civilians.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will leave Japan on Monday to attend a U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York where he is expected to vow to support the social advancement of women and protect their rights, government sources said Sunday. Abe is then expected ...
Caroline Kennedy tells the Senate confirmation panel she hopes to carry on the legacy of her slain father, John F. Kennedy, as U.S. ambassador to Japan.
Prosecutors search the Kagoshima home and office of Lower House Rep. Takeshi Tokuda on suspicion of illegal campaigning in December's general election.
A U.N. World Food Program emergency coordinator for Syria urged Japan and the rest of the international community Friday to come up with more funding to supply food aid to Syrians both inside and outside the country. Speaking at the Japan National Press Club ...