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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 ...
Exercise may be at least as effective as some drugs in reducing the risk of death in stroke patients or people with heart disease, a study published Wednesday said. Researchers from the London School of Economics, Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of ...
International disarmament experts were to begin cataloguing Syria’s vast arsenal of chemical weapons Wednesday, checking a list of sites provided by Damascus and conducting on-the-spot tests ahead of its destruction. The 19-strong team from the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived ...
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that would make it illegal for people to humiliate ex-lovers by posting indecent photos or videos online. Under the new law targeting “revenge porn,” distributing sexual images “with the intent to cause serious emotional distress” would carry ...
The French distributor of the film “Diana” has removed an advertising poster that sparked outrage for being placed at the site where the Princess of Wales died in 1997. Distributor Le Pacte said it had the poster for “Diana” removed from near the entrance ...
Authorities on Tuesday confirmed the existence of a mass grave containing prisoners’ remains near the site of a former communist labor camp in eastern Romania. The discovery bolsters the case of investigators seeking genocide charges against the former commander of the penal colony. A ...
An imprisoned member of the punk band Pussy Riot ended her nine-day hunger strike Tuesday but her husband said she has vowed to restart it if she is not moved to another prison. Pyotr Verzilov said his wife, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, was in stable condition ...
A patriotic Russian group on Tuesday called for President Vladimir Putin to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his Syria diplomacy, claiming he was more deserving of the award than laureate U.S. President Barack Obama. A group that lists senior Russian officials among ...
President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the nation’s top energy regulator withdrew Tuesday, conceding he did not have enough support for confirmation. Ron Binz, a former Colorado energy regulator and strong backer of renewable energy, was opposed by at least half of the 22-member ...
The U.S. has expelled Venezuela’s charge d’affaires in Washington and two other diplomats in reprisal for the expulsion of three American diplomats from Caracas, both countries said late Tuesday. The tit-for-tat move came a day after the expulsion of the Americans, accused of plotting ...
It wasn’t a tsunami but it had the same effect: A wave of jellyfish was huge enough to force one of the world’s largest nuclear reactors to shut down — a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common. Operators of the Oskarshamn ...
Millions of Americans flooded government websites Tuesday to get a long-awaited look at insurance options available under the Affordable Care Act, but the high traffic contributed to widespread computer problems on what President Barack Obama hailed as a historic day. HealthCare.gov, the federal Internet ...
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb just by thinking about moving it — all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his thigh, where they can be used to communicate with ...