Williams beats Kerber at WTA Championships
In her first match since winning the U.S. Open in September, Williams defeated Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-1 Tuesday to start round-robin play in the season-ending event featuring the top eight players ...
View ArticleMETI eases regulations so nonutilities can offer power
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has relaxed regulations to make it easier for nonutility companies to supply electricity to other companies. The move, designed to promote cogeneration ...
View ArticleTax hike foes in DPJ form new group
As their party's majority teeters on the brink in the Lower House, Democratic Party of Japan members opposed to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's tax hike goals launched a new study group ...
View ArticleNetlabels Anoraks and Canata Records give the old DIY spirit a go with some...
Ano(t)raks has released music from six Japanese artists from the Kansai region since the summer. However, Ogasawara, who lives in Aomori Prefecture, has yet to meet any of ...
View ArticleThe Essence of Finnish Design and Culture
Showcasing some of Finland's most outstanding and well-known creations, such as original illustrations from the "Moomin" picture books by Tove Jansson, this exhibition puts forward ...
View ArticleAppeals falling on deaf ears
Hattori's mom appeals for wider U.S. gun control effort ," the poor woman is appealing to a nation that looks upon gun ownership with almost religious zeal and for many American males, gun ...
View ArticleSouth irked by Gangnam Style snub
SEOUL — While South Korean rapper PSY's "Gangnam Style" has taken the world by storm, it has largely fallen flat in Japan, an anomaly viewed with grave suspicion by some in the ...
View ArticleChina has two under arrest over damages in anti-Japan rioting judiciary website
HONG KONG — Two Chinese men are under arrest for rampaging at a Japanese restaurant during anti-Japan protests that spread across China last month amid a bilateral territorial dispute over a ...
View ArticleA lesson in restraint what China tells us about Iran
Obama has declared that a nuclear-armed Iran could not be contained and must be prevented, but he deliberately has been vague about the lengths to which he would go in preempting such a threat or how ...
View ArticleWestern stereotypes may explain Japans Psy-lence
Kotaku of how audience expectations and music industry practices here — as well as Psy's own promotional priorities — may have left Japan out of the loop. As with many discussions of ...
View ArticleNissan to double output in Thailand
Nissan Motor Co. is considering investing tens of billions of yen to build a new plant in Thailand, aiming to double its annual production capacity in the country, sources said ...
View ArticleTragic but gun rights needed
Hattori's mom appeals for wider U.S. gun control effort ," I have always been heart-sickened by the death of this young man. Who knows what he could have created for his nation, his people, ...
View ArticleKeidanren boss TPP entry wouldnt end all tariffs
SAPPORO — Keidanren Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura has predicted tariffs will remain on certain products even if Japan's joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, apparently seeking to ease ...
View ArticleArt Walk Selections from the Collection of the Bridgestone Museum of Art
This exhibition presents a selection of works with a focus on modern art, both Western and Japanese. Highlights include paintings by Impressionists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and ...
View ArticleJapan takes leap into offshore wind power
CHOSHI, Chiba Pref. — Wind turbines have become a familiar sight in the blustery port of Choshi on the eastern tip of the Kanto Plain, but this 126-meter-tall machine is different. Besides ...
View ArticleFukushima rice above threshold for cesium
FUKUSHIMA — Rice grown by a farmer in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, returned a radioactive cesium reading of 110 becquerels per kilogram, exceeding the maximum of 100, the prefectural ...
View ArticleEl Grecos Visual Poetics
El Greco began his career in Greece as a Christian icon painter before moving to Italy to master Western painting techniques and then finally settling down in ...
View ArticleInsanity of U.S. gun ownership
No one who lives in Japan can truly understand the insanity that allows all Americans to own nearly any sort of gun. While long guns such as rifles and shotguns could be argued by some as a defense ...
View ArticleUniqlo unveils scholarships for graduate studies in U.S.
Major clothing retailer Uniqlo Co. announced a $1.6 million scholarship program to help young Japanese aiming to become business leaders and fashion designers to enroll as graduate students at three ...
View ArticleHigh price of U.S. democracy
HONG KONG — Watching the debates between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Gov. Mitt Romney was a profoundly depressing experience, not least because the two contenders not ...
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