Japan’s players celebrating beating Scotland and progressing to the knockout stages. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images
The teacher, who was not named, filed a lawsuit after her employer, Nihon University Daisangakuen, refused to allow her to use her birth name in professional interactions with pupils and parents. The three male judges noted that while an increasing number of married women continued to use their birth names at work, the practice “has yet to take root in society”. They cited a poll of 1,000 female w
Coverage of the war in Syria is rightly focused on the human cost, but there are cultural casualties too, says Kevin Rushby, who remembers Aleppo's Souk al-Madina, a Unesco world heritage site, which was destroyed by fire earlier this week A few miles from Aleppo are the hills where human beings first domesticated wild grasses. All the wheat we eat originates from those plants and the first farmer
Takashige Kowata thought he was prepared for the worst when he opened the door to his house for the first time in six months. But the trauma of seeing his family home abandoned amid the panic of a nuclear meltdown was compounded when he noticed a broken bathroom window. "It looks like we have been burgled," the 63-year-old says, still too shaken to establish what is missing. "I can't believe that
Michihiro Kono watched as last month's tsunami destroyed his home and the soy sauce business handed down through generations of his family. He describes what happened on 11 March and explains why rebuilding local industry is vital. guardian.co.uk In less tumultuous times, Michihiro Kono could have expected a seamless transition as the new head of the soy sauce company he took over from his father
In the movies, an actor's face is his fortune. It isn't simply a matter of being good-looking enough to play the romantic hero or rugged enough to carry an action picture. It's about having an instantly available, readable screen personality; it's also about attitude, a continuous professional battle-readiness: Hollywood talks about someone having their "game-face on" or having "the chops" for a c
A group of the world's leading cultural experts have launched a stinging attack on the Italian government over the use of giant advertisements placed on some of Venice's most historic sights. The directors of the British Museum, the V&A and the Museum of Modern Art in New York are among the signatories of a letter demanding that Italy's culture minister, Sandro Bondi, outlaw the billboards, which
The reopening of the national museum in Baghdad is an important symbolic gesture, but it's time to start the real work In Iraq, days of great joy or importance are announced in a truly unique way: our government declares curfews. Elections, religious celebrations and national holidays all get their curfew announcements. So on Sunday night, when my aunt told me that roads in central Baghdad were go
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