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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
Only a year after its launch, Anton Gelman’s young technology company secured its first round of investment in January and he is already laying the groundwork for a second, much larger injection of capital. His company, which provides a platform for freelance photographers and ...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay $920 million for trading losses that shook the financial world last year. But the bigger price may be a few words rarely uttered in settlements with regulators: America’s largest bank is also admitting wrongdoing. JPMorgan’s acknowledged failure of ...
Authorities in the United States and Britain are set to hand down roughly $750 million in fines against JPMorgan Chase over the bank’s disastrous “London Whale” trading losses last year, according to people familiar with the negotiations. The settlements could be announced as soon ...
Switzerland is racing to end a bitter dispute with Washington over Swiss bank accounts held by U.S. tax dodgers, but observers warn the newfound peace could come at a high cost. The lower house of the Swiss parliament voted Monday in favor of a ...
China will start a nationwide audit of government debt this week as the new Communist Party leadership investigates the threats to growth and the financial system from a record credit boom. The State Council, under Premier Li Keqiang, ordered the review, the National Audit ...
Federal prosecutors unveiled criminal charges Thursday against famed hedge fund SAC Capital, citing “institutional practices” that encouraged a culture of using inside information to gain illegal profits. The government charged SAC Capital with wire fraud and four counts of securities fraud. The indictment cites ...
The finance chiefs of the Group of 20 major economies pledge to take necessary steps to boost job creation and economic growth as a near-term priority.
When environmental journalist David Sassoon began reporting about the billionaire Koch brothers’ interests in the Canadian oil industry last year, he sought information from their privately held conglomerate, Koch Industries. The brothers, who have gained prominence in recent years as supporters of and donors ...
The British government Monday pledged to jail bankers found guilty of reckless misconduct, backing a recommendation contained in a report written by a panel of cross-party lawmakers. The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, established by the coalition government after the Libor rate-rigging scandal last ...
A French court on Monday acquitted energy giant Total, its chief executive, a former minister and more than a dozen other defendants of corruption charges in connection with Iraq’s oil-for-food program. The court ruled there had been no corruption, influence-peddling or misuse of assets ...
Soon after Congress approved the largest overhaul of financial regulation in generations, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to enforce what it considered one of the simpler parts of a mammoth and complicated law. The provision required companies to disclose how much more their ...
Jason Trigg went into finance because he is after money — as much as he can earn. The 25-year-old certainly had other career options. An MIT computer science graduate, he could write software for the next tech giant. Or he might have gone into ...