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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 ...
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was accused Wednesday by the opposition of “backpedaling at 100 miles an hour” on his hard-line asylum seeker policies during a sensitive diplomatic visit to Indonesia this week. Abbott chose Jakarta for his first international trip since winning Australia’s ...
A furor over Australia’s policy of turning boats full of asylum seekers back to Indonesia has erupted ahead of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s first visit as Australian leader to its important neighbor. Indonesia has warned that the Australian Navy’s plan to intercept and force ...
Despite persistent and even rising anti-immigrant sentiment in much of the world, promising signs of a more enlightened approach to migration are emerging.
More than a year after its much-hyped introduction, a government-led initiative to lure “highly skilled” foreign professionals to Japan is making lackluster progress, with the number of those applying for visas under the new system much smaller than initially envisioned. Dismayed by the poor ...
Australia broke global human rights rules by denying a group of refugees a chance to challenge their detention, imposed on security grounds, a U.N. watchdog said Thursday. The criticism from the U.N. Human Rights Committee comes as campaigning for Australia’s Sept. 7 elections puts ...
Australia remained adamant Wednesday that its asylum seeker policy was working, despite another boat sinking and nearly 3,000 people arriving since the ruling Labor Party announced a new hard-line stance last month. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who is trailing conservative rival Tony Abbott in ...
The decision was not easy for the Gulf War veteran. After 20 years of living in Switzerland, Scott Schmith renounced his U.S. citizenship, to escape the obligation to report his income and assets to the U.S. government despite living overseas. “I have nothing to ...
Tony Abbott, the conservative front-runner who looks set to become Australia’s next prime minister, declared that “this is our country” as he unveiled a tough new temporary visa policy Friday that would strip boat people of basic rights. Abbott, who opinion polls show is ...
Japan’s immigration control reform has proved to be fraught with pitfalls that could cause unwitting foreign residents to be expelled or face other serious problems. The immigration control law was revised in July 2012, primarily to bolster the crackdown on cross-border terrorism-related activities. However, ...
Reader VS writes: “I am a Spanish national interested in getting information about how to start a business in Japan. What is the minimum required to invest for this purpose and how is this linked to obtaining a residence status? Any information — in ...
Australia on Wednesday said its new hard-line stance on boat people was working with widespread evidence from Indonesia that asylum seekers were demanding their money back from people smugglers. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd struck a deal with his Papua New Guinea counterpart, Peter O’Neill, ...
The latest racist attack against Italy’s first black minister, in which bananas were hurled at her during a rally, sparked outrage across the political spectrum Saturday. Immigration Minister Cecile Kyenge was speaking at a Democratic Party rally Friday when an unidentified spectator threw bananas ...