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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 ...
Cultural attitudes regarding rape must change if we are to create a safer future for the next generation of women and girls.
A 30-year-old infertile woman gave birth after surgeons removed her ovaries and re-implanted tissue they treated in a lab, in an experimental technique that could help women in their early 40s who have trouble getting pregnant because of their age, Japanese researchers find.
The South Korean author of a much-discussed book on “comfort women” is calling for broad-based talks between Japan and South Korea to seek a resolution on the women, who were forced into prostitution for Imperial Japanese soldiers. In a recent interview, Park Yu-ha, a ...
In the months since a gruesome gang rape riveted India, a “women-only” culture has been on the rise, with Indians increasingly seeking out women-only buses, cabs, travel groups and hotel floors. One city is preparing to open a women-only park. And in November, the ...
At the U.N. General Assembly, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he wants Japan to engage more proactively in the global body's collective security framework.
Hisako “Chako” Higuchi and the late Ku Ok-hee of South Korea are regarded as the “mothers of women’s golf” in their countries and followed a similar groundbreaking path to the top by challenging themselves overseas. Higuchi said that when she turned pro in 1967, ...
Japan was the favorite travel destination for Taiwanese women in August, according to statistics released by the island’s Tourism Bureau. Over 121,000 Taiwanese women visited Japan in August, nearly 15,000 more than those who went to mainland China, the second favorite destination, data released ...
One in 3 young Japanese women wants to get married and become a full-time homemaker, a government survey has shown, despite growing calls to raise female participation in the workforce. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry poll, which quizzed more than 3,000 women aged ...
Women who drink heavily are at a 2.3 times greater risk of suffering strokes than those who drink only occasionally, scientists reported Wednesday. The researchers, from the National Cancer Center and Osaka University, surveyed some 47,000 women across Japan from 1990 to 2009 for ...
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 ...
In a profession dominated by men, an increasing number of women are training to be sushi chefs with a view to plying their trade overseas. In the past, women were not allowed to prepare sushi in Japan, based on a belief that their hands ...
Imagine our current discussions about women and the workplace — Can women have it all? How do women lean in? — taking place in a country with one of the worst gender-equality ratios in the world. This is Japan. And women, it turns out, ...