AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
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In its Jan. 12 edition, the Japanese business magazine Diamond Weekly decided to ring in the new year with a 10-page feature titled, “Who’s Killing Music?” It was the topic of much discussion and reaction in the music business, and the article even made ...
Niners receiver Randy Moss steals the show during Super Bowl media day.
Japan will face tougher tests over the year ahead than next Wednesday’s season-opening friendly against Latvia, but with World Cup qualification virtually secured more than 16 months before the tournament begins, manager Alberto Zaccheroni will be keen to start building momentum on the road ...
For non-Japanese speakers, services like Google Translate and NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s phones that provide automated translation by speaking into the devices may have made it easier to communicate while in Japan.
Japan recorded its first death from a new viral infection last autumn, the health ministry said Wednesday. The adult victim, a resident of Yamaguchi Prefecture, had no recent record of overseas travel or any apparent trace of a mite bite, even though the new ...
South Korea said Wednesday it successfully launched a satellite into space from its own soil for the first time, a point of national pride that came weeks after archrival North Korea accomplished a similar feat. The 33-meter, 140-ton Korea Space Launch Vehicle rocket blasted ...
The New York state Senate passed a resolution Tuesday honoring a “comfort women” monument erected in the state, saying it serves as a reminder that the coercion of Asian women into sexual servitude by the Imperial Japanese Army was a “crime against humanity,” a ...
A new element has entered Egypt's wave of political unrest: a group of masked young men called the Black Bloc who present themselves as the defenders of protesters opposed to the Islamist president's rule.
Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda lashed out Wednesday at the massive ¥4.7 trillion public works spending package compiled by the Liberal Democratic Party. In the first question-and-answer session in the Diet since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s policy speech Monday, Kaieda said, “the ...
A U.S. Justice Department request to defer regulatory action on Softbank Corp.’s $20 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. follows criticism that the acquisition could expose domestic networks to Chinese companies. The Justice Department, FBI and Department of Homeland Security asked the U.S. Federal ...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday put the weight of his administration behind efforts to pass legislation allowing many of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. to earn citizenship, seeking to build on a rapidly shifting political consensus around the issue. Obama dedicated ...
Japan plummeted to 53rd from the previous year’s 22nd in the 2013 press freedom ranking released Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based nonprofit organization. Japan “has been affected by a lack of transparency and almost zero respect for access to information on subjects ...
U.S. stocks rose Tuesday, with the Dow hitting a fresh five-year high, as investors weighed company earnings and a mixed batch of economic data. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 72.49 points, or 0.52 percent, to 13,954.42, just 1.5 percent below its all-time closing ...
Alex Rodriguez has denied a newspaper report on Tuesday that accused the Major League Baseball star of buying human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing substances from a clinic in the Miami area. The Miami New Times, an alternative weekly, reported that it obtained records ...
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers really think they’re on to something, even if it’s nothing revolutionary. They’re gaining confidence in their newfound attitude and approach with each victory they’re producing. Not even a fantastic fourth-quarter rally by the New Orleans Hornets could ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he will present his basic policy on whether Japan should join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations before the Upper House election in the summer. Appearing on television Tuesday, Abe stressed he has no intention of putting the thorny issue ...
Gays and lesbians who come out about their sexual orientation are less stressed than those who stay in the closet and are often more relaxed than heterosexuals, according to a study released Tuesday. Louis H. Lafontaine Hospital researchers tested levels of the hormone cortisol ...
A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some became seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help pinpoint why flu viruses hit some populations particularly hard and alter how they are treated. Less than 1 percent ...
While a golden age for secular arts, Japan's Edo Period (1603-1867) is broadly dismissed by art historians as a period of stagnation for Buddhist sculpture.
Ten endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have been found dead in a Malaysian forest, and officials say they were likely poisoned. The elephant carcasses were found near each other over the past three weeks at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, Laurentius Ambu, director of the ...
