Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Entertainment Sep 19, 2013
Man Booker Prize admits American literary works in global expansion
Britain’s Man Booker Prize announced on Wednesday that it was expanding to cover all novels written in the English language, meaning American authors will be eligible for the first time. The £50,000 ($80,000) Booker prize has until now been awarded annually for the best ...
World Aug 31, 2013
Irish poet, 'Beowulf' translator Seamus Heaney dies
Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose verse captured the transcendent power, darkness and humanity of his conflicted homeland, died Friday at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74. In accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, Heaney acknowledged another Irish Nobel laureate, William ...
Entertainment May 28, 2013
Koreeda's film wins jury prize at Cannes festival
“Like Father, Like Son,” directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, received the Prix du Jury at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival on Sunday. It was the first Japanese film to receive an award in the competition division since Naomi Kawase’s “The Mourning Forest,” which won ...
World May 24, 2013
Germany tops Japan in popularity poll
Germany is the most popular country again in terms of "global influence," with Japan dropping from first to fourth place, an annual poll for the BBC World Service reveals.
World May 1, 2013
Spain eatery grabs world's top spot after poisoning floors Danish rival
Spain’s El Celler de Can Roca seized the title of the world’s best restaurant from Denmark’s Noma on Monday, one month after dozens of people came down with a bout of food poisoning from the Copenhagen eatery. The restaurant in Girona, run by three ...
Film Feb 18, 2013
Romanian drama nets top prize at Berlin film festival
“Child’s Pose,” a mother-son psychodrama set among post-communist Romania’s new ruling class, won the Golden Bear top prize at the 63rd Berlin film festival Saturday. Director Calin Peter Netzer, a member of Romania’s renowned new wave in cinema, tells the story of a wealthy ...