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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 ...
Kosuke Hagino won a second silver medal at the FINA World Swimming Championships on Thursday, becoming the first Japanese to make the podium in the men’s 200-meter individual medley in major international competition, including the Olympic Games. The 18-year-old Hagino, who snared Japan’s first medal of the championships on Sunday ...
World individual medley champion Daiya Seto came in third in the 200-meter IM but failed to qualify for the final ...
Newly crowned world champion Daiya Seto won the men’s 400-meter individual medley Saturday at a short course World Cup meet ...
Daiya Seto missed out on a golden double as he finished fourth in the men’s 200-meter individual medley on the final day of a short-course World Cup swim meet on Thursday. The 19-year-old Seto, who captured Japan’s only gold medal of the just-concluded world ...
Even in a post-Olympic year, the spotlight is still there on the swimming pool. Teenage phenoms Kosuke Hagino and Akihiro Yamaguchi are Japan’s latest stars in swimming, and are expected to lead “Tobiuo Japan” for years to come. Both received a lot of attention ...
Former two-time double gold medal Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima powered to victory in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke on the first day of action Friday at the Japan Open. Kitajima, who captured a pair of golds at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Games, ...
Record-breaking swimmer Kosuke Hagino was among 31 named to the Japan national team for this summer’s world championships in Barcelona on Monday. The 18-year-old Hagino, who held off Michael Phelps for a bronze in the 400-meter individual medley at last year’s London Olympics, won ...
London Olympic silver medalist Ryosuke Irie stops Kosuke Hagino's bid of winning six titles in the men's 200-meter breaststroke in Japan's national swimming championships on Sunday.
Kosuke Hagino made Japanese swimming history on Saturday when he became the first swimmer to win five titles at the national championships. Hagino powered to victory in the 200-meter individual medley in a Japanese record time of 1 minute, 55.74 seconds on the third ...
Kosuke Hagino defeated London Olympic bronze medalist Ryosuke Irie in the men’s 100 meters backstroke on Friday to capture his third title at the national swimming championships, a qualifier for this summer’s world championships in Barcelona. The 18-year-old Hagino surpassed the qualifying standard with ...
Former two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima will not retire any time soon, saying Monday that he will continue to compete for at least another season. “I want to enjoy swimming this year,” said the 30-year-old Kitajima, who did not win an individual ...
An Australian open-water distance swimmer who has made multiple crossings of the English Channel on Sunday announced an ambitious bid to swim solo from Cuba to the United States without a shark cage. Chloe McCardel, 27, has twice won the Channel Swimming Association’s Sotiraki ...
Daiya Seto placed second in the men’s 200-meter individual medley Friday to capture his second medal at the short-course FINA Swimming World Championships. The 18-year-old Seto was a distant second to American Ryan Lochte, who broke his own world record with a lung-busting time ...
Japanese teen Daiya Seto rewrote his own record Thursday en route to winning the men’s 400-meter individual medley on the second day of the short-course FINA World Swimming Championships. Eighteen-year-old Seto shaved 0.87 second off his previous mark to take the gold medal in ...
Ye Shiwen, China’s teenage swimming sensation, stormed to victory in the 200-meter individual medley despite claiming to be 85 percent fit at Beijing’s short-course World Cup meet on Friday. The 16-year-old who stunned the sporting world with two gold medals in the women’s 200 ...