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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 ...
Prime Minister David Cameron’s office denied Saturday that his family has no love for Larry, the Downing Street cat. Following claims in a new book that Cameron’s acquisition of the moggy was little more than a PR stunt, a “savelarry” hashtag began trending on ...
The eagle, caught red-handed. Remote cameras that were intended to monitor Siberian tigers in Russia instead caught a golden eagle’s fatal attack on a deer, snapping three photos as the massive bird dug its talons into the distressed animal’s back. London’s Zoological Society, which ...
The African cuckoo finch is known for bamboozling other birds into raising its young, but new research has shown just how brazen the feathery rogue is in evading parental duty. The yellow bird, about the size of a sparrow, is a notorious freeloader. It ...
Is it a bird? Is it a Pacific islander? Tokyoites tackle the big existential question: What do you want to be in your next life
Queen Elizabeth II is so fond of her corgis that she personally supervises their daily meal and pours the gravy for them herself, according to a new book on British royal pets since the 16th century. “Pets by Royal Appointment,” by Brian Hoey, who ...
A Peruvian lawmaker has joined animal rights activists to try to halt the consumption of barbecued cat at an annual festival. The activists say at least 100 cats will be eaten at this weekend’s Santa Efigenia religious festival in the town of La Quebrada, ...
Jeremy Coleman was on the trail of a ruthless serial killer recently, studying its behavior, patterns and moves at a Massachusetts lab. The more he saw, the more it confirmed a hunch. He had seen it all before. He was looking at a copycat ...
It is a success story of happy coexistence: outnumbered by storks, residents of the Polish hamlet of Zywkowo welcome the birds on their roofs in exchange for good luck — and, if you believe legend, newborns. Kept afloat by EU and nonprofit funding, the ...
Rival Dutch- and French-speaking communities in Belgium are at each others’ throats again — this time over the loan of two giant pandas by China to the linguistically divided nation. “The pandas of discord,” screamed the daily Le Soir on Wednesday. “Pandas, a question ...
A jumping insect has gears, scientists have discovered, a rare instance in which man and nature independently converged on the same idea. It was not easy to verify. One species of plant hopper is tiny, just a bit larger than a flea. And it ...
The blobfish, a denizen of the Pacific that looks like a bald, grumpy old man, has been named the world’s ugliest animal, organizers of the offbeat competition said Thursday. More than 3,000 people contributed to an online poll aimed at raising awareness of unsightly ...
A wide-ranging probe into woolly mammoths has added to evidence that they were wiped out by climate change. British and Swedish researchers sequenced DNA from 88 samples of mammoth bone, tooth and tusk, looking for a signature in the genetic code that is handed ...