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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 ...
An Australian politician was forced to quit a parliamentary ethics committee Tuesday after his former mistress revealed lewd messages he sent her, including one reportedly showing his penis in a glass of red wine. Peter Dowling, a legislator in the Queensland state government who ...
After three men in this heavily polluted city west of Yekaterinburg beat Stepan Chernogubov unconscious, fracturing his skull and knocking out three teeth, criminal investigators took him, still bleeding, to a police station where they questioned him for four hours and then threatened to ...
International Judo Federation president Marius Vizer tells Japanese judo to get its house in order after a series of scandals.
The All Japan Judo Federation is probing allegations that a top female judoka was the target of an inappropriate sexual advance in December 2011 by a director of the body. Former Olympic silver medalist judoka Noriko Mizoguchi said Thursday that the female judoka, whose ...
Three high school students in Fairfax County, Virginia, made cellphone videos of drunken sex acts with fellow teens and shared them among themselves. Now they are going on trial, facing a charge usually reserved for adult predators: child pornography. The case is one of ...
Whoever wrote “Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners” (The Foreign Element, March 12) picked an excellent pseudonym. “Richard Parker” has a long fictional and actual history. In the Marvel Universe, Richard Parker is the father of Peter Parker, Spider-Man. You’d think that ...
In the final scenes of Aaron Sorkin’s powerfully written film “A Few Good Men,” one of the U.S. Marines on trial for the murder of a fellow serviceman is bewildered as to why he has not been cleared of all charges after his commanding ...
The following are some readers’ responses to the March 12 Foreign Element column by Richard Parker headlined “Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners.” See many more in the comment section below the original article. Coach endorses, defends violence This is a shocking ...
A Japanese Olympic Committee probe concludes that 15 elite female judoka suffered a "grave injustice" from the physical and verbal abuse inflicted by their former coach.
It was shaping up to be just another day at practice. The high school’s head basketball coach, who was young and still trying to establish himself, was picking on the captain of the once-famous girls’ team, jumping on her every mistake and yelling at ...
In response to the article “Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims” (The Foreign Element, Jan. 28), we invited readers to come up with their own ideas for new types of “harassment.” As you can see, one JT writer got ...
When forensic psychiatrist Frank Farnham first meets a stalker, he doesn't judge. Some of his clients have done awful things. They have intimidated, pursued and terrified their victims.