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.
Stage Aug 10, 2013
Japanese co-producer shares in Tony win for Lauper musical
by Yuki Takahashi
Yasuhiro Kawana, 52, exchanged high fives with American pop icon Cyndi Lauper when “Kinky Boots,” a Broadway show he co-produced, was declared the winner of this year’s Tony Award for Best Musical. “It was like a blue sky appeared on the ceiling” of Radio ...
Music Aug 7, 2013
Cyndi Lauper is having a great year
by Jason Richards
Cyndi Lauper is at a loss for words. The musical icon, who turned 60 in June, has just been faced with the suggestion that her career is now hotter than it’s ever been. “I don’t know …” she says in her thick Queens, New ...
Music Aug 17, 2007
Girls have all the fun
by James Hadfield, Philip Brasor, and Daniel Robson
If there was a festival anthem to this year’s Summer Sonic, it was “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” The overflowing crowd at Cyndi Lauper’s Sunday set on the Sonic Stage was mostly made up of women who mouthed every word to her string of ...