Wednesday 1 May 2013

Tepco suffers ¥685 billion group net loss

Tokyo Electric Power Co. reports a group net loss of ¥685.29 billion for the business year ended in March, its third straight year in the ...

Japan’s Crown Prince, Princess attend coronation of new Dutch king

Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako attend the coronation of the new Dutch king.

Fake school uniforms let some turn back the clock

A 17-year-old high school boy in Tokyo likes to hang out with his friends on weekends sporting a blazer and white shirt, the typical uniform ...

Abe looks to Moscow after regional spats

Ahead of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Russia, he repeated a single message to the Diet and the media for weeks: He wants to ...

Boeing takes out full-page ads to repair reputation

Boeing on Monday took out full-page advertisements in major Japanese newspapers as it tries to piece together its reputation in the wake of the worldwide ...

Female-friendly shared workspace a boon for moms

Yushi Katayama began to think seriously about leaving Japan after the birth of his son, Shota, in 2012. The decades-long economic slump and poor social welfare ...

Pressure cookers now WMD?

George W. Bush wasn't lying about Iraq after all. Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction ? pressure cookers in the homes of Iraqi ...

Restarting talks with North Korea

What will it take to get North Korea to return to the six-party talks and to reconsider accepting the conditions of a 2005 accord, and ...

Toward a Japan-Russia peace treaty

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agree to restart talks toward a peace treaty, which could lead to resolution of a territorial ...

Ensuring Syria’s chemical genie stays in the bottle

Syria's chemical-weapons stockpile is dangerous, but so are the remnants of a North Korean-engineered nuclear reactor buried beneath a base overrun by Syrian rebels.

Watching moms get funky can get babies into the groove

My baby is staring at me in shock. This may be something to do with the fact that I am hopping in a circle on ...

Former Hankyu hurler ‘Animal’ Lesley dead at 54

Former Hankyu Braves reliever Brad "Animal" Lesley, whose outsized personality and antics on the mound made him a fan-favorite and provided the springboard for a ...

Collins reveals he is gay to S.I.

Jason Collins on Monday became the first active male player in a major American professional team sport to reveal he is gay — a groundbreaking ...

Kinjo hit propels BayStars to win

Tatsuhiko Kinjo broke up a tie with an eighth-inning RBI single and the DeNA BayStars held on for a 5-4 win Tuesday afternoon to end ...

Rockets edge Thunder to avert sweep

Kevin Durant consoled Serge Ibaka after he missed a layup at the buzzer that would have sent Monday night's game against the Houston Rockets into ...

Woodson beating odds with Knicks

Mike Woodson likes to tell the story of how he first got into NBA coaching, which was something of a symbol for his basketball life. Woodson ...

Unbeaten Kashiwa cruise past Central Coast to end ACL first round

Group H winners Kashiwa Reysol wrapped up the first round of the Asian Champions League with an unbeaten record after defeating Central Coast Mariners 3-0 ...