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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 ...
The hourlong walk from the local railway station to the Morteratsch glacier is a winding trek through a valley littered with rocks that the retreating ice left behind. The walk was not always this long. In the mid-19th century, the Morteratsch glacier stretched all ...
Switzerland is racing to end a bitter dispute with Washington over Swiss bank accounts held by U.S. tax dodgers, but observers warn the newfound peace could come at a high cost. The lower house of the Swiss parliament voted Monday in favor of a ...
As the Swiss city of Zurich opens the country’s first sex drive-in to better regulate prostitution and move the sex trade outside the city center, residents, politicians and sex workers remain divided over the plan. The nine so-called sex boxes, located in a former ...
The Swiss city of Zurich is to open a sex drive-in on Monday. Similar initiatives exist in Germany and Italy, while Belgium and the Netherlands have come up with a different approach. Here are some examples. Germany: The cathedral city of Cologne established a ...
North Korea expressed anger Saturday after Switzerland blocked a deal to supply key equipment for a ski resort that has been under construction as one of leader Kim Jong Un’s pet projects. The Masik ski resort has been heavily promoted by the North’s propaganda ...
Switzerland said Monday that it had blocked a deal to sell top-notch ski lifts to North Korea, in a move that could delay what is seen as leader Kim Jong Un’s pet ski resort project. Swiss company Bartholet Maschinenbau (BMF) had reportedly all but ...
Swiss lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a deal from Washington to halt ruinous U.S. legal action, provided that Swiss banks that have helped stash cash also expose American tax dodgers and pay hefty fines. The Alpine country’s lower house shot down the controversial Lex USA ...
Steffan Millius grips his sword and makes his way through the throngs of people crowding into Appenzell’s central square to take part in Switzerland’s famous direct democracy in perhaps its purest form. Every year, voters from across the northeastern demi-canton, or region, of Appenzell ...
Japan has been asked by Switzerland to endorse a joint statement to be issued by the preparatory committee for the next Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review meeting, urging that atomic weapons not be used under any circumstances, government sources said Sunday. Some Foreign Ministry officials, ...
Denis Vipret moves around the circle of 20 people waiting for his healing touch, touching their shoulders and pumping his right hand lightly to transfer its energy to each patient. Vipret is a star among a soaring number of healers in Switzerland, and during ...
The Swiss luxury hotel chain Kempinski is dropping plans to open a huge pyramid-shaped hotel that has stood half-built for decades in North Korea amid tensions on the peninsula. “Kempinski Hotels confirms that KEY International had initial discussions to operate a hotel in Pyongyang. ...
A Swiss woman who was on a bicycle tour with her husband along central India’s tourist trail was gang-raped by seven men, police said Saturday, again highlighting the issue of poor safety for females in the country. The incident served as a reminder that ...