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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, resolved to end nearly two decades of deflation and revive the economy, explains his economic and fiscal policies to his fellow G-8 chiefs, turning "Abenomics" into an international commitment in the process.
About 45 minutes from Tokyo’s skyscrapers, resting in the hinterlands of Tachikawa there is a land of mist and dragons. It’s a place where rolling hills tumble toward an Aztec pyramid, and children bounce on clouds. The place is called Showa Kinen Koen, and ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
Across the colorful show floor at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where players could become all manner of things, like a throat-slashing 18th-century pirate, zombie killer, a guardian of the last city on Earth, music-making sorcerer, ruthless Roman general, ...
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday — and the real party might be just a ...
Roger Federer found the perfect place to end his title drought — a small town in western Germany that has a big tennis stadium and a street named Roger-Federer-Allee leading to it. Federer left Halle a winner again Sunday, ending a 10-month run of 11 tournaments without a title, an ...
Top-seeded Andy Murray and defending champion Marin Cilic were set to play in the final at Queen’s Club after both ...
Rafael Nadal defied David Ferrer, as well as a worrying security breach, to become the first man to capture the ...
Tennis great Gene Mako, who won four major doubles titles and was ranked in the world top 10 during the 1930s, has died in Southern California. He was 97 years old. The International Tennis Hall of Fame said Mako died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...
His dramatic and delightful French Open semifinal was 4½ hours old — and 14 games into the fifth set — when Rafael Nadal raced from the net to the baseline to retrieve Novak Djokovic’s seemingly unreachable lob. Many players wouldn’t have bothered to give ...
As Maria Sharapova celebrated her return to the French Open final, she let loose one last scream — this one a happy holler. Serena Williams won more quietly and quickly, and she’ll play Sharapova for the title Saturday. Sharapova, the defending champion, overcame 11 ...
The ease with which Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic swept aside their quarterfinal opponents at the French Open was remarkably similar. Both men won in straight sets Wednesday, hardly challenged. Both earned 12 break points, Nadal converting seven, Djokovic five. Nadal’s serve was broken ...
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga dominates Roger Federer at the French Open
Seven-time champion Rafael Nadal celebrated his 27th birthday in ruthless style on Monday by trouncing outclassed 13th seed Kei Nishikori 6-4, 6-1, 6-3 to reach the French Open quarterfinals. It was third-seeded Nadal’s 56th win in 57 career matches at Roland Garros as he ...
Chasing a shot, Roger Federer caught his right shoe in the French Open’s red clay, twisting that foot awkwardly and tumbling to the ground. Soon enough, he was in a real rut, in danger of his earliest exit from a Grand Slam tournament in ...
Kei Nishikori will meet seven-time champion Rafael Nadal in the last 16 of the French Open after the Spaniard beat Italian Fabio Fognini 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday. Nishikori earlier in the day had beaten local favorite Benoit Paire 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-1 ...
Miffed about the scheduling of matches at the French Open, Rafael Nadal took the court at 11 a.m. on Friday lacking his usual intensity, and it showed. The seven-time champion had to come from behind for the second match in a row to beat ...
Bethanie Mattek-Sands skipped backward across the clay, her wagging tongue framed by a smile as she savored yet another surprising victory for American tennis at the French Open. Rejuvenated by a rain delay, Mattek-Sands rallied past 2011 champion Li Na 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 Thursday ...
Roger Federer walked onto Court Suzanne Lenglen, smiled when greeted with applause and looked up into the stands, where three youngsters waved a banner that read, “Roger 4 Ever.” Forever? Probably not, but Federer easily outlasted qualifier Somdev Devvarman in the second round of ...
Novak Djokovic spent the better part of a rainy Tuesday at the French Open wondering when — and even whether — he would wind up playing his first-round match at the only Grand Slam tournament he’s yet to win. Unlike Wimbledon and the Australian ...