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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 ...
Australia’s new Prime Minister Tony Abbott began a visit to Indonesia on Monday for talks on his tough refugee policies, which have sparked anger in Jakarta, as his government faced criticism over a boat sinking that left dozens dead or missing. Abbott laid a ...
Four families from Myanmar arrived Friday night in Tokyo on a pilot U.N. refugee resettlement program introduced in fiscal 2010. The families are from ethnic minorities in Myanmar and had been living in a refugee camp in Thailand, across the border. After a 180-day ...
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 ...
The U.N. estimates that 7 million Syrians are displaced in their own country or refugees in other countries. The world must do more to help them.
The wounds from his torture were still bleeding when Sri Lankan asylum seeker Sutha was picked up by the Australian Navy from a sinking boat in the Indian Ocean. He had spent 16 days at sea on a leaky vessel with 48 other men, ...
Given the tremendous negative effect of the conflict on Syrian children, it is obvious that international community has failed to protect them.
More than 2 million Syrians have now fled their war-ravaged country, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, lamenting the nearly tenfold increase from a year ago. “Syria is hemorrhaging women, children and men who cross borders often with little more than the clothes on ...
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 ...
Compared with any other English-speaking people, a great many Australians are openly racist. That's why "boat people" these days are settled in Papua New Guinea.
Thousands of Syrian Kurds have poured into Iraq over the past few days to escape deadly clashes between Kurdish fighters and jihadists and seeking a respite from privation. The U.N. says more than 15,000 refugees have crossed into Iraq in the latest influx since ...