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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 ...
A war of words between British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and the conservative Daily Mail tabloid has moved beyond politics into more personal territory with a blistering attack on Miliband’s late father. In a blaring headline over the weekend, the newspaper labeled Ralph ...
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 ...
This might seem a bizarre place for a battle over energy policy in Britain. A quaint village with a single pub, a well-attended tea room and a population of about 2,000, Balcombe has become the focal point of a heated debate over hydraulic fracturing, ...
The brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was convicted Tuesday of raping his daughter in a case that highlighted how the Irish nationalist political party long discouraged the reporting of crimes within its own circles. In an 11-1 vote, a Belfast jury found ...
Nearly 18 months after Japan and Britain struck a deal to jointly develop weapons and defense equipment, security experts from both nations gathered in Tokyo Monday to discuss ways to expand that to maritime security, cybersecurity and military equipment. The two-day conference on Japan-U.K. ...
In an open pit near the old Bedlam insane asylum, where the curious once ogled chained lunatics for the price of a shiny coin, the skeletons in London’s closet are climbing to the surface. And dead men do tell tales. Take, for example, one ...
The U.K. is not anywhere near George Orwell's "big brother society," but we all need to be alert to maintaining a fair balance between security and of freedom.
A British member of the European Parliament has been temporarily disowned by his right-wing party after referring to a room of party delegates Friday as “sluts.” Godfrey Bloom found himself in hot water at the conference of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) when ...
Britain’s intelligence services were behind a cyberattack on state-owned Belgian telecom giant Belgacom, a German newsweekly reported Friday. Der Spiegel magazine said documents it had seen from fugitive U.S. leaker Edward Snowden’s “archive” indicated that the goal of the project, code-named Operation Socialist, was ...
Queen Elizabeth II is so fond of her corgis that she personally supervises their daily meal and pours the gravy for them herself, according to a new book on British royal pets since the 16th century. “Pets by Royal Appointment,” by Brian Hoey, who ...
Jimmy Davis, a 41-year-old London disc jockey, was saddened when he heard about the latest mass shooting in the United States. But like much of the world after the attack Monday at Washington’s Navy Yard, he was no longer shocked. The United States is ...
Britain was dragged into a debate Tuesday on Muslim women wearing full-face veils in public, with its biggest-selling newspaper backing calls from politicians to join European countries that have banned its use. The topic had stayed below the British political radar until the past ...