Friday 24 May 2013

Nikkei dives 7%, ends below 14,500

Tokyo's Nikkei stock index falls more than 7 percent to end below 14,500 as selling triggered by weak Chinese data outpaced sharp gains made earlier.

Miura becomes oldest atop Everest

Eighty-year-old Yuichiro Miura has become the oldest person to scale Mount Everest, his management office said Thursday. In his third successful attempt to climb the 8,848-meter ...

An overture to Pyongyang

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week ...

Mr. Murakami’s tale of redemption

Mr. Haruki Murakami's latest novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," his first since the publication of "1Q84" about three years ago, sold ...

Global call to women standing on the sidelines

Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women's rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and ...

Chomp your way through spring

It's no surprise that the Japanese get serious about eating and drinking come late spring, as yatai food carts roll out, a bevy of fresh ...

Springtime beans aim for the sky

Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new ...

Japanese afternoon tea; Beatles and disco dinner party; eat off Kutani porcelain

Japanese afternoon tea at Peninsula In line with the hotel's theme "Enriching Your Life," the Peninsula Tokyo is holding special promotions relating to food and culture ...

Shizuoka theater festival courts the avant-garde

Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the "best birthday party ever" when he arrived in Japan just ...

‘The Tree’

Ten-year-old Simone (Morgana Davies) has just lost her dad, felled by a sudden heart attack, and she finds solace high in the branches of a ...

‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’

You don't know what you've got until it's gone. This banal platitude is the essence of "Celeste and Jesse Forever," a romcom that recalls those ...

‘The Place Beyond the Pines’

Though religion is never an issue, the sins of the fathers is a theme that reverberates with biblical overtones in "The Place Beyond ...

Son of Cronenberg debuts with sickly body horror

Imagine you are David Cronenberg, a filmmaker but also a parent. You tell your kids that your job is making movies; naturally, they want to ...

Fighters rookie Otani makes solid impression in mound debut

As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he ...

Coach K to remain with Team USA

Mike Krzyzewski had decided to remain coach of the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team. Krzyzewski will try to lead the Americans to a third straight gold ...

Kisenosato wins again

Ozeki Kisenosato pulled out the heavy artillery to beat yokozuna Harumafuji to remain spotless with his 12th consecutive win at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament ...

Kudo, Higashinamed to squad for Australia match

Kashiwa Reysol's in-form striker Masato Kudo and FC Tokyo midfielder Keigo Higashi received their first callups as Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni named a 26-strong squad ...