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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 ...
While more than 7,000 couples applied to adopt or become foster parents every year between 2006 and 2010, only 309 children were adopted in fiscal 2010, according to government figures.
A gynecology and obstetrics hospital in Kumamoto becomes the first medical institution to provide a "special adoption service" at the request of the Japan Medical Association.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed a court decision that ordered a couple to hand over a girl they had raised since birth to her biological father because he is a Native American. In an emotionally wrenching case, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in ...
In today’s America, a single woman facing a surprise pregnancy is likely to consider just two options: abortion or single motherhood. The third choice, adoption, carries such a social stigma that placement of infants in the United States has plummeted — even as the ...
“I think my friends are a little jealous, because I’ve got two mommies and two daddies and they’ve only got two parents,” said Simon, 6, squirming with his 3-year-old brother, Joaquin, on the knees of their four gay parents. While Britain and France in ...
Russian children whose adoption has already been approved by the courts will be able to go to the United States despite a blanket ban on American adoptions, a Kremlin spokesman said. Dmitry Peskov declined to give further details but Russian officials said Friday that ...