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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.
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 ...
A U.S. university student is eating his way through school — competitively. Computer engineering student Eric Dahl now ranks third in the world of competitive eating as determined by All Pro Eating rankings. Dahl has earned more than $18,000 in prize money or merchandise ...
Interest in food and other items from or associated with Brazil is growing in Japan ahead of the World Cup soccer tournament to be held there next year. Restaurante Carioca, a Brazilian restaurant in the Aoyama neighborhood in Tokyo associated with former soccer star ...
Revered for centuries but reviled in recent decades, Confucius is making a comeback in China — and its dinner plates. “Confucius cuisine” is a fine-dining trend that reflects how the ruling Communist Party, which long saw the sage as a reactionary force, has drafted ...
Recipes using leftovers have been growing more popular as they help homemakers reduce waste and save time in the kitchen. Expecting this trend to contribute to sales of their products, food manufacturers have been moving to promote recipes using leftovers on their websites and ...
A botulism scare that sparked global recalls of Fonterra milk products was a false alarm and there was never any danger to consumers, New Zealand officials said Wednesday after new tests. The crisis led to infant formula being taken off shelves from China to ...
India’s parliament on Monday passed a flagship $18 billion program to provide subsidized food to the poor that is intended to “wipe out” endemic hunger and malnutrition in the aspiring superpower — despite concerns about its impact on strained public finances. The Food Security ...
Kaizen here is organic, ubiquitous and attuned to the physical and psychological needs of human beings. At its best, this "human-scale kaizen" eliminates or eases many of the mundane uncertainties, annoyances and embarrassments of daily life.
Authentic recipes of homemade meals that are rarely tasted at Japanese restaurants are a subject of interest to many outsiders. For those who want to know what’s cooked daily in the kitchens of ordinary Japanese households and even want to know how to cook ...
According to those who tried it last week, lab-grown beef doesn’t really taste like meat. So what exactly gives meat its flavor and makes us beg for more? We’ve long known why ice cream and chocolate appeal so much to our taste buds: It’s ...
After decades of rising, obesity rates among low-income U.S. preschoolers declined broadly from 2008 to 2011, according to a federal report released Tuesday that offered the first glimpse of good news for children considered among the most vulnerable to the disease’s health risks. While ...
Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd.’s warnings of tainted ingredients in some products of the world’s largest dairy exporter is the latest blow to baby formula sellers amid Chinese consumers’ concerns about food safety. The possible threat of some baby formula with the contaminated ingredients stocked ...
New Zealand seized control of Fonterra’s response to a milk contamination scare Tuesday after criticizing the dairy giant’s handling of a crisis that has triggered global recalls and tainted the nation’s “clean, green” image. Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce said officials had been sent ...