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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 ...
“Emperor,” a film directed by Peter Webber that takes up the subject of Emperor Showa and the postwar occupation period, has been showing at local theaters since July. The film’s protagonist is Gen. Bonner Frank Fellers, who served as a subordinate to Supreme Commander ...
Actor Matthew Fox saw his career take off in the 1990s with the role of Charlie Salinger in the American TV series “Party of Five,” and he gained even more popularity as Jack Shephard, the central character in the innovative series “Lost.” Now, though, ...
Akira Kurosawa once told me that if he were to make a film about the Emperor, “I would probably be killed. … Even if the film were highly positive, just the fact that I was using the Emperor as a character would be enough ...
From “Empire of the Sun” to “The Last Samurai,” and from “Memoirs of a Geisha” to “Babel” — when Hollywood film directors have turned their cameras to the Land of the Rising Sun, there is one person they have insisted on having by their ...
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will hand over public duties of visiting kindergartens and nursing homes to their children after both of them turn 80, according to the Imperial Household Agency. The couple expressed a wish to pass on the duties, the agency said ...
The Abe government is inconsiderate for having the Emperor and Empress attend a ceremony that commemorates the restoration of Japan's sovereignty in 1952.
The Liberal Democratic Party calls for revising the Constitution to designate the Emperor as "head of state" instead of Japan's "symbol," and to give him actual political powers.
Prince Akishino, the younger son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, has said the content of the Imperial family’s official events is likely to be changed to reduce the workload on his father, who underwent a heart operation this year. The remarks relating to ...