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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 ...
Mayor of London Boris Johnson fired up the Conservative Party conference Tuesday with a rousing call to arms for Britain’s 2015 election and a challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin on cucumbers. This time last year Johnson was riding high after his re-election and ...
Nearly nine in 10 children in China can identify a cigarette logo, according to a U.S. study out Monday that measured tobacco recognition among typical 5- and 6-year-olds in various countries. The study in the journal Pediatrics covered six nations — Brazil, India, Nigeria, ...
Let other mayors fret about potholes, taxes and sewers. This is an Olympic city, and here is the jeans-clad mayor striding into his office on a recent afternoon, fresh from a landslide, and not the electoral kind. When Sochi won the 2014 Games, life ...
First, Vladimir Putin accused Hillary Rodham Clinton of inciting protests against him at the end of 2011. The next fall, the Russian president threw the U.S. Agency for International Development out of his country. Then he decided civic groups that get U.S. financing must ...
The U.N. Security Council approves an ambitious plan for Syria to surrender its chemical arms but does not spell out penalties if Damascus fails to comply.
The eagle, caught red-handed. Remote cameras that were intended to monitor Siberian tigers in Russia instead caught a golden eagle’s fatal attack on a deer, snapping three photos as the massive bird dug its talons into the distressed animal’s back. London’s Zoological Society, which ...
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 ...
In the Soviet era, female political prisoners who were sent to labor in Russia’s Mordovia region described their privations in tiny words written on cigarette papers, which took months to reach the world. Today, an inmate can hand a real letter to a husband, ...
Russia may change its position on Syria if it sees any “cheating” by the regime, a senior Kremlin official said Saturday after Damascus disclosed details of its chemical stockpile in the first step of a disarmament plan. “I am speaking theoretically and hypothetically, but ...
The world's chemical weapons watchdog begins examining the details of Syria's chemical arsenal while rebels agree to a cease-fire with jihadists in a key town.
In novelist Victor Pelevin’s pungent satire on contemporary Russia, “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf,” its narrator, a 2,000-year-old shape-shifter, kisses Alexander, a brutish but alluring officer with the FSB, the Russian security service — who is a werewolf, like all his colleagues. In ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategic win over the U.S. in Syria vindicates his foreign policy at a time when he faces difficulties at home.