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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 ...
A fisheries federation asks South Korea to lift an import ban imposed because of radiation-contaminated water reaching the sea at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Poor weather has again damaged a silt fence in the ocean erected to contain radioactive material escaping from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Tokyo Electric manages to uncover bolt chinks in the storage tank from which 300 tons of highly radioactive water escaped with barely a trace last month.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French President Francois Hollande have agreed at a summit on the need for a strong U.N. resolution to stop Syria from using chemical weapons, while pledging cooperation on decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 plant, a Japanese official said. At ...
Russia’s state-run nuclear power firm Rusatom is leaving its offer to help Tokyo Electric Power Co. deal with the Fukushima No. 1 reactor meltdowns open despite the rejections it’s been getting so far, the head of a Rusatom unit said. Rusatom could use its ...
The ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 plant is a sign that the world needs to seriously rethink nuclear safety and consider possibly ending its dependence on atomic power, the former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says.
Readers' mails on the Fukushima fiasco and the late, great Mary Sisk Noguchi, Kanji Clinic columnist and friend to Japanese learners around the world.
A senior Liberal Democratic Party official wants Tepco to be split up and a new company created to take charge of decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
On his second tour of Fukushima No. 1, Prime Minister Abe recycles his "under control" claims from Buenos Aires, requests a deadline for filtering the radioactive water and urges the decommissioning of units 5 and 6.
Tepco put off a plan to create frozen soil shields around Fukushima No. 1 in 2011 after the exorbitant cost raised fears of a bad stock market reaction.
Japan is coming under fire from other members of the International Atomic Energy Agency for its slow response to the radioactive water leaks at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex. At a briefing Tuesday about the leaks on the fringes of an ongoing ...
Masahide Matsumoto, mayor of Katsurao, Fukushima Prefecture, said upon receiving a disaster response award from the United Nations this month that the worst-case scenario should always guide one’s thinking when preparing for and responding to emergencies. The 75-year-old mayor received the 2013 Green Star ...