Zuckerberg began with a simple idea that quickly became revenue-free Internet traffic. Photo by YURIKO NAKAO/AFP/Getty Images Facebook’s initial public offering on Friday showcases the best and worst sides of capitalism. Execrable puffery ...

Photo by YURIKO NAKAO/AFP/Getty Images Facebook has reminded investors of a simple lesson: Avoid companies whose bosses don’t care about you. From the get-go, Mark Zuckerberg, the social network’s not very sociable founder, made clear he had ...

Still, of course, those indomitable Wili maidens worked some of their magic, helped especially by the soloists Isabella Boylston and Yuriko Kajiya (Veronika Part’s Myrta was rather more leaden than severe). The sociopolitical conditions and ...

(Yuriko Nakao/REUTERS) The assembly in a western Japanese town that hosts a nuclear plant agreed on Monday it was necessary to restart two off-line reactors, its chairman said, the first such nod since all the country’s stations were halted after the ...

The terms “cool biz” and “super cool biz” are from Japan. In 2005, then Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi proposed to Environment Minister Yuriko Koike an idea to save energy consumed by air conditioning by wearing light clothing.

In 1979 Tomiko retired to Willcox, Ariz. to be close to her youngest sister, Yuriko Yamasaki. For her remaining years Tomiko was an adventurous traveler and a talented artist. She is survived by her son, Urb Miki, and nieces Christine Dayton and ...