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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 ...
Daisuke Takahashi came from behind to win the men’s singles on Friday night to keep Japan in the hunt for a medal at the World Team Trophy. Despite making several mistakes in his free skate to “I Pagliacci” at Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Takahashi prevailed ...
Akiko Suzuki and Daisuke Takahashi lift Japan to the top of the World Team Trophy standings.
It is as if time has stood still. Three years after her record-setting performance in winning the gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, Kim Yu Na put on a sensational show in capturing her second world title last week in London, Ontario. It was ...
Patrick Chan wins his third consecutive title at the World Figure Skating Championships.
Burgeoning teenage talent Yuzuru Hanyu will be looking to sparkle with a gem of a performance for Sendai when the world championships start this week. Sendai-born Hanyu will be competing at the worlds just days after the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, ...
Mao Asada leads a Japanese sweep of the women's medals at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Mao Asada lands a triple axel and wins the women's short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Yuzuru Hanyu, the 2012 national champion, wins the men's short program with an impressive performance at the Four Continents.
"The level I am at now is the best for now, but I want to push myself even more looking toward the world championships," says the two-time world champion.
Reigning Grand Prix Final men’s figure skating champion Daisuke Takahashi said Saturday he plans on retiring after the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. “I think my amateur career will end with Sochi,” said the 26-year-old Takahashi, who took part in an ice dance exhibition the ...
Sixteen-year-old Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, the junior world championship runnerup and Youth Olympics winner, clinched her first Russian figure skating title on Thursday despite coming close to pulling out through injury. Tuktamysheva, who won with a personal best of 196.57 points, had complained of a foot ...
Yevgeny Plushenko overcame severe back pain to clinch his 10th Russian figure skating title on Wednesday on the same Sochi ice where the 2014 Winter Olympics will take place. Former triple world champion Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic gold medalist, who was leading the men’s ...