Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70.
Womack’s publicist, Sonya Kolowrat, said Friday that the singer had died, but she could provide no other details.
Womack was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease two years ago and overcame addiction and multiple health issues, including prostate cancer, to pull off a second act in his career.
Womack performed recently at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and seemed in good health and spirits. He had been scheduled to perform at multiple events across Europe in July and August.
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The European Union signed a historic free trade pact with Ukraine on Friday and warned it could impose more sanctions on Moscow unless pro-Russian rebels act to wind down the crisis in the east of the country by Monday.
Shortly after returning to Kiev from Brussels where he signed the pact, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced on his website that Ukraine had extended a cease-fire by government forces against pro-Russian separatist rebels by 72 hours until 10 p.m. on Monday.
Poroshenko came to Brussels to sign a far-reaching trade and political cooperation agreement with the EU that has been at the heart of months of deadly violence and upheaval in his country, drawing an immediate threat of “grave consequences” from Russia.
Georgia and Moldova signed similar deals, holding out the prospect of deep economic integration and unfettered access to the EU’s 500 million citizens, but alarming Moscow, which is concerned about losing influence over former Soviet republics.
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MANAUS, BRAZIL – Xherdan Shaqiri’s hat trick put Switzerland into the second round of the World Cup, and kept coach Ottmar Hitzfeld gainfully employed for at least a few more days.
Shaqiri scored a pair of first-half goals and added another in the second Wednesday to give Switzerland a 3-0 victory over Honduras, a result that put the Swiss in second place in Group E behind France.
“We knew that we were going to show great football today,” said Shaqiri, a Bayern Munich winger. “For us, this has been really a dream to be in the World Cup, small Switzerland in the World Cup.”
The small Swiss will next face the not-so-small Lionel Messi and Argentina on Tuesday in Sao Paulo in what could be Hitzfeld’s final match. The German veteran, a two-time Champions League winner as a coach, has said this tournament will be his last.
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Jeers, sneers, and even discriminatory remarks in the assembly hall aren’t rare in the world of Japanese politics.
But the recent sexist slurs by a ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker that made headlines around the world offer Japan a chance to end this shameful tradition, an expert says.
“There is absolutely no need to jeer during an assembly session using taxpayers’ money. Lawmakers are just bored and looking for entertainment,” said Kazuhisa Kawakami, a political science professor at Meiji Gakuin University. “We taxpayers find nothing amusing about heckling.”
Jeering is a long-standing tradition in the Japanese political world, often referred to as “gijo no hana (the blossom of the assembly hall)” by some Diet members, suggesting that such comments lighten the atmosphere.
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Groggy fans reacted with sadness early Wednesday after watching the national team exit soccer’s World Cup, some deciding to numb the pain after the horror show with one more drink.
Having watched Samurai Blue get crushed 4-1 by a rampant Colombia, it was little wonder that blue-clad fans who had been drinking all night opted to have another for the road.
“Why, why, why?” wailed sales assistant Mami Shibata, 24, slumped on the floor with her face poking over the top of a table at a Tokyo bar. “I’ve had enough of the World Cup.”
Her exasperation was shared by many following the match, which kicked off at 5 a.m. Japan time.
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Japan’s population as of Jan. 1 was down 0.19 percent from a year before at 126.4 million, falling for the fifth straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Wednesday in a report.
The figure uses data from Japan’s resident registry system and does not include foreign residents.
While the number of births in 2013 edged up 955 from the previous year to 1.03 million, the number of deaths reached a record high, at 1.26 million.
As a result, the natural population decline, or the number of deaths over births, stood at 237,450, the highest on record. The population marked a natural decline for the seventh consecutive year.
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Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes agreed Wednesday to improve the investment climate in the South American country in an effort to attract more Japanese firms.
“Japanese companies have created jobs for our young people,” Cartes said at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following summit talks in Tokyo. “We’ve also received cooperation from Japan for a wide range of development projects.”
Meanwhile, Abe pledged that Japan will provide about ¥1.8 billion in aid to Paraguay for the development of water facilities.
He also said he hoped that more Japanese companies would enter the Paraguayan market and that bilateral economic relations will continue to expand.
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Japanese teachers work an average of 53.9 hours per week, the highest figure among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 34 member countries, according to a survey released Wednesday.
The figure for Japan was well above the average of 38.3 hours among OECD members, according to the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), which Japan participated in for the first time.
The time spent by Japanese teachers on administrative work totaled 5.5 hours per week on average, longer than the OECD average of 2.9 hours. Also, the time spent on extracurricular activities, such as coaching student clubs, is 7.7 hours on average in Japan, compared with 2.1 hours for the OECD overall.
However, the hours spent teaching and preparing for classes are almost the same in Japan and the other countries surveyed.
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The sexist taunting of a female politician during a recent session of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly drew rapid condemnation from some quarters, but little disbelief.
The problem is long-running and many victims tend to accept it and suffer in silence, some assembly members say.
Mitsuko Nishizaki, secretary-general of the Tokyo Seikatsusha Network political party, told The Japan Times that sneering, mockery and even overt sexual harassment is routine and often goes unreported.
In 2010, she said, a fellow assembly member shouted that Nishizaki “must enjoy being groped” when she voted against revising a youth ordinance to regulate extreme sexual images in manga and anime.
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A Tokyo assemblywoman subjected to sexist taunts by male colleagues last week said Tuesday the capital’s legislative body needs to be reformed so that the voices of women can be heard.
“A local-level assembly like the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is not a friendly place for women to work, and it doesn’t make use of women’s dynamism,” Ayaka Shiomura, a member of Your Party, told a packed Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo.
Shiomura said it was important to increase the number of female lawmakers in order to make policies beneficial to women a reality.
The 35-year-old assemblywoman said she backs Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy of making Japan more women-friendly. “I place my hope in Prime Minister Abe” to create a society that embraces various voices, she said.
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The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday adopted a set of economic reform strategies to boost mid- to long-term economic growth, including attracting more foreign investors to prop up stock prices.
The Japan Revitalization Strategy — the “third arrow” of “Abenomics” — includes a pledge to cut corporate tax, welcome more foreign workers, help working women and shake up the portfolio of the Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s largest.
Analysts have generally welcomed dozens of deregulations and subsidies included in Abe’s growth strategy, in particular the goals of reducing the corporate tax rate and changing GPIF policy to encourage more domestic share purchases.
But so far the market’s reaction has been lukewarm. Most of the measures had already been reported on and factored in by investors.
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A man under the influence of quasi-legal herbs drove a speeding car into pedestrians Tuesday evening in the bustling Tokyo district of Ikebukuro, leaving one person dead and six people injured.
The driver, Keiji Nagura, a 37-year-old restaurant manager from Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture, was arrested Tuesday on initial suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury. The incident killed a woman in her 20s, while six other pedestrians were injured, police said.
Shortly after 8 p.m., Nagura drove the car down a sidewalk for at least 20 meters, knocked over a mailbox and hit the walls of buildings, according to witnesses. Nagura apparently never attempted to use his brakes.
When he finally stopped the car, Nagura looked exhausted and was drooling inside the vehicle, they said.
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