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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 ...
Behind India's economic gloom, a new generation is taking over, bringing with it fresh ideas and visions.
India’s focus on marriage has fuelled an industry worth billions, lining the pockets of everyone from wedding planners to jewellers to astrologers — and now, a new TV channel hopes to cash in. When television producer Anuranjan Jha met his wife through a matrimonial ...
Japan and India agreed Friday to boost their bilateral currency swap agreement to $50 billion from $15 billion, aiming to help stabilize global financial markets, including those of emerging nations, the Finance Ministry said in Tokyo. The deal was reached during talks between Indian ...
The most important indicator of whether India will crash is the sweat on Raghuram Rajan’s brow. The new Reserve Bank of India governor arrived in Mumbai this week with a bang, announcing a slew of reforms to free up and expand the banking sector ...
More than 200 languages have vanished in India over the last 50 years, a new study says, blaming urban migration and fear among nomadic tribes of speaking their traditional tongues. The extensive study, conducted throughout the country over four years and released this week, ...
About 120 million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwana broke into a jigsaw puzzle of continents and isles in the Southern Hemisphere. One of those was a giant island forming what we now call India. About 55 million years later, an asteroid, perhaps, or ...
Indian student Appu Sharma was going to apply to a U.S. university to study economics but with the rupee on the ropes, he’s set his sights closer to home. “I’ll do my BA here and maybe my postgrad abroad if the rupee improves — ...
The 23-year-old rape victim whose assault and death shook India and captured the attention of the world was the daughter of an airport baggage handler who was studying hard and who harbored big ambitions. She enrolled four years ago on a physiotherapy course in ...
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 ...
India’s finance minister said Thursday that the intense selling pressure on the rupee is exaggerated and that the currency market “panic” was unnecessary. The rupee, which has hit record lows for five straight trading days, slumped to 65.56 against the dollar on Thursday as ...
Indian policymakers are looking increasingly panicky as they battle the worst currency crisis in more than two decades, and more worryingly there is no sign their remedies are working. The rupee lurched to a new lifetime low of 62.03 to the dollar on Friday ...
With just a patchwork of colorful plastic sheets to shield patients from the heavy monsoon rains, a Mumbai street close to one of India’s top cancer treatment centers acts as a kind of unofficial ward. Every year, the Tata Memorial Hospital draws tens of ...