Saturday 18 May 2013

Despite lacking FTA, Japan to get U.S. LNG

The United States will allow exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas to Japan and other countries to which it is not bound by free-trade ...

Yahoo Japan suspects vast ID theft

Yahoo Japan Corp. suspects that up to 22 million user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorized attempt to access the administrative system of ...

Mixi’s new boss tells ailing SNS time for changes

Mixi Inc. will shore up its faltering earnings by seeking new businesses and doing away with complacency in the face of stiff competition from Facebook, ...

With retirement, Beckham brand to go even more global

After David Beckham's long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps even more ...

Family drama is reimagined for today’s Japan

"Kazoku Game (The Family Game)," directed by the late Yoshimitsu Morita and released in 1983, remains a movie milestone. A cynical black comedy, it presented ...

Berlusconi’s raunchy parties detailed in court

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up ...

Not so happy Mother’s Day

Once the Mother's Day advertising displays came down, it was back to the grim reality of being a mother in Japan rather than in other ...

Fukushima photos focus on what can’t be seen

Photographer Tomoki Imai has been a blur of activity since we reached the lookout point halfway up 601-meter Mount Higakure in the Futaba district of ...

Dwarf bamboo’s no pushover whatever the season

An unseasonably cold spring wind blasts in from the north shaking all before it. Oak trunks tremble; mast-like young white birches sway alarmingly and ineffectively ...

Taking it easy on stroll-size Omi-jima

Mr. Hirohisa had made it clear when I called him from the nearest mainland city to the island — Nagato in western Honshu's Yamaguchi Prefecture ...

The other costs of concrete

Where does concrete come from? The material has become such a pervasive symbol of human alienation from nature that it's tempting to assume it's just ...

Authorized life of Thatcher is clear-eyed, rich in details

It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore's big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has ...

Private tutor as crime solver; inner workings of the human body, dramatized; CM of the week: Acom

These days a college education doesn't get you as far as it used to, though it comes in handy for solving crimes, apparently. The hero ...

Burns heroics give B-Corsairs shot at championship

Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs' super substitute. Burns ...

Mayor: Deal to sell Kings signed

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said Friday that the deal to sell the Kings to a group led by software tycoon Vivek Ranadive has been signed. Johnson ...

All eyes on Sato ahead of Indy 500

When Takuma Sato strolls into his garage at Indianapolis, he gets a quick glimpse into the two distinct paths that have defined these past 12 ...

Ronaldo, Mourinho sent off in loss

The King's Cup trophy could have been coach Jose Mourinho's parting gift for Real Madrid, or at least a consolation prize after a disappointing season ...

Kuroda befuddles Blue Jays

In a revolving-door season, Joe Girardi is grateful he has to spend little time worrying about Hiroki Kuroda. There are those moments, though, that the New ...

Hakuho tops Takarafuji to keep flawless record

Hakuho kept his eyes firmly on the prize and wrapped up the first week of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with another high-octane performance against ...