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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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to tell U.S. President Barack Obama that Japan will join the Hague Convention on cross-border parental abductions of their children as soon as possible, according to government sources. Abe will unveil his plans when he meets with Obama during ...
The lay judges who sentenced two Somali pirates to 10 years in prison Friday said that while they had initial qualms about a case they considered foreign, they came to believe it was their duty as part of the international community to try the ...
Canberra has lodged an official protest with Tokyo after a ship from Japan’s whaling fleet entered Australia’s exclusive economic zone in the Southern Ocean near Macquarie Island. The Shonan Maru No. 2, a support vessel for the whalers, strayed into Australian waters Thursday, prompting ...
For the 10th year in a row, the Bank of Japan has opted not to print ¥2,000 bank notes in fiscal 2013. The ¥2,000 note was first issued in July 2000 to commemorate the Group of Eight summit held in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture. ...
Panasonic Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. are considering setting up a new company possibly in the business year from April to merge their system LSI chip operations, sources said Friday. The move is aimed at rebuilding their respective loss-making businesses by integrating design and development ...
Panasonic Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. are considering setting up a new company possibly in the business year from April to merge their system LSI chip operations, sources said Friday. The move is aimed at rebuilding their respective loss-making businesses by integrating design and development ...
Running away with a win against a Memphis team in disarray after trading away top scorer Rudy Gay, the Oklahoma City Thunder found a way to come unhinged, too.
Ryuji Sonoda, head coach of the national women’s judo team, submitted his letter of resignation Friday to the All Japan Judo Federation to take responsibility for physically abusing team members during practice. The federation initially had planned to simply reprimand Sonoda and retain him ...
Running away with a win against a Memphis team in disarray after trading away top scorer Rudy Gay, the Oklahoma City Thunder found a way to come unhinged, too.
The Environment Ministry on Friday designated the Japanese eel as a species at risk of extinction on its red list of endangered freshwater and brackish water fish, although the move is not legally binding. “This does not mean people will become unable to eat ...
The International Volleyball Federation announced Thursday that Japan will host the FIVB World Cup in 2015 and 2019. The 2015 tournament will be held from August to September and involve 12 nations in both men’s and women’s competitions. It will be the first event ...
Economist Hiroshi Kato, a longtime chairman of the Tax Commission, died of heart failure Wednesday, his scholarship foundation announced Friday. He was 86.
No other uniform would fit Donald Driver. The Green Bay Packers’ all-time leading receiver announced his retirement Thursday morning, with a public ceremony planned for Feb. 6 at the Lambeau Field Atrium. “I’ve always said I never want to wear another uniform. I’ve always ...
Nissan Motor Co. will more than quadruple the number of high-speed battery charging stations for electric vehicles in the United States in the next 1½ years. The automaker said Thursday it plans to set up more than 500 new charging stations in the U.S., ...
You may think a guy who has to pay his ex-wife £82,000 — a day yes, a day — would have learned a financial lesson or two, but Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy and president of AC Milan, continues to be ...
After rolling to their first five victories, the San Jose Sharks are showing they can win the tight games, too. Michal Handzus and Dan Boyle scored in the shootout to help the Sharks extend the best start in franchise history with their seventh straight ...
South Korea saw Japanese visitors plunge in October-December to their lowest level in six quarters, Yonhap news agency said. The drop reflected the won’s appreciation against the yen, in addition to frayed bilateral ties over the disputed Sea of Japan islets known as Takeshima ...
The government will apply for the inclusion of the Amami and Ryukyu islands on UNESCO’s provisional list of candidates for World Heritage sites. The Environment Ministry is hoping to secure World Heritage status for the islands in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures in summer 2016. ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved an outline of safety standards for severe accidents at atomic power plants that may require years of reinforcement work for some reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster. Nuclear plants will need to build secondary control centers at least ...
Don’t count Honda among the exporters preparing for a financial bonanza from the tumbling yen.
Don’t count Honda among the exporters preparing for a financial bonanza from the tumbling yen.
Don’t count Honda among the exporters preparing for a financial bonanza from the tumbling yen.
U.S. Defense Secretary-designate Chuck Hagel pledged Thursday to make efforts to ease the burden on Okinawa from hosting the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan, while promoting President Barack Obama’s goal of rebalancing the U.S. military toward the Asia-Pacific region. In a written ...
Yuriko Kikuchi received the Foreign Minister’s Commendation on Wednesday at the Japanese consul general’s residence in New York for her lifelong contribution to promoting mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and the United States. “Since her first dance steps as a 7-year-old in San ...
Pollen season is coming. Due to last year’s sizzling summer, the amount of pollen this year is expected to be particularly nasty in some parts of the country, adding to the suffering of those subject to allergic reactions this time of year. At the ...
The transport ministry said Friday it will dispatch two ministry officials to the United States from Sunday as part of the investigation into a mishap involving Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner operated by All Nippon Airways Co. The pair, electrical systems specialists, are expected to ...
Japan moved within a win of reaching the second round of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group 1 after Go Soeda outclassed Indonesia's Wisnu Adi Nugroho on Friday.
The number of people diagnosed with influenza came to an estimated 2.14 million in the week through Sunday, up around 740,000 from the week before, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Friday. The number of reported flu patients averaged 36.44 across some 5,000 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated Japan’s stance Friday that there is no territorial dispute with China that needs to be resolved, a comment likely to trigger further anger in Beijing. “No territorial problem exists between (Japan) and China that needs to be resolved nor ...
The government is considering granting an honorary award to the late yokozuna Taiho in recognition of his historic victory record in the sumo world, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said. Taiho, who died Jan. 19 of heart disease at age 72, “gave lots of ...
Spring training for the 12 Japanese pro baseball teams got under way in earnest on Friday in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures ahead of the season openers on March 29. The two most highly touted rookies — right-handers Shintaro Fujinami and Shohei Otani — took ...
David Lipton, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, will visit Japan early in February, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said Thursday. Lipton, the IMF’s No. 2 man, will attend informal talks among central bankers and others Monday and Tuesday. He is also ...
The unemployment rate rose by 1 percentage point to 4.2 percent in December, as the stronger yen and global economic slowdown prompted manufacturers to cut their workforces to the lowest level in over 50 years, the government reported Friday. Reflecting weak exports and industrial ...
Sharp Corp. said Friday that its loss in the nine months to December doubled to ¥424.35 billion as the embattled electronics giant struggles to repair its tattered balance sheet. But the company offered a glimmer of hope, as it eked out a small operating ...
Former Arizona Diamondbacks television analyst Mark Grace has been sentenced to four months in jail under a work-release program. The 48-year-old former first baseman with the Diamondbacks and the Chicago Cubs pleaded guilty Thursday to felony endangerment and misdemeanor driving under the influence of ...
Looking to fine tune their roster for the season’s final three months, the Tokyo Cinq Reves have signed former BYU shooting guard Lee Cummard, the expansion team announced on Friday. Cummard, 27, suited up for the Kyoto Hannaryz last season. His clutch 3-pointer with ...
Strong iPhone sales allowed Softbank Corp. to log a record group operating profit and KDDI Corp. to post firm profit growth from last April to December. But NTT DoCoMo Inc., which does not market Apple Inc.’s hugely popular smartphone, saw its operating profit fall ...
Household spending fell a price-adjusted 0.7 percent from the previous year to an average of ¥325,492 in December, falling for the first time in two months, the government said in a preliminary report Friday. The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said consumption is “on ...
In a dazzling career filled with riches and titles, David Beckham is taking his globe-trotting soccer tour to one of the most alluring destinations of all. The 37-year-old midfielder signed a five-month contract with Paris Saint-Germain on Thursday, and has agreed to essentially play ...
Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder signed a new five-year contract Thursday that includes an increase in base compensation to $14.75 million over the life of the contract. The new deal, which rolls over annually, replaces one signed in 2009 that did not specify ...
Panasonic Corp. reported Friday an unexpected third-quarter profit because of the weaker yen and restructuring efforts. Net income was ¥61 billion in the three months that ended Dec. 31, compared with a loss of ¥198 billion a year earlier, the Osaka-based company said. Analysts ...
Phil Mickelson falls short in his quest to become sixth golfer in PGA Tour history to break 60.
A man arrested Wednesday in connection with the slaying of a Swiss-based Japanese financier and his wife has confessed to killing the couple, claiming he held a grudge against the asset manager over investment losses, police sources said Friday. Tsuyoshi Watanabe, a 43-year-old corporate ...
Thousands of Cambodian mourners accompanied a gilded chariot carrying the body of former King Norodom Sihanouk — the country’s dominant figure in modern times — in a funeral procession Friday to a cremation ground next to the palace where he was crowned more than ...
The Tokyo District Court jails two Somali pirates for 10 years for trying to hijack an oil tanker operated by a Japanese company in the Indian Ocean in 2011.
Japan eases its limits on U.S. beef imports, permitting retailers to begin selling meat from cattle less than 30 months old.
The iron gates of the short passageway, a stone’s throw from the increasingly trendy Montorgueil district of Paris and a brief walk from the prostitutes of Saint Denis, are closed to the public these days. It was here, in what was Passage Saumon off ...
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Masato Uchishiba is sentenced to five years in prison for raping a female member of a university judo club in 2011 in Tokyo.
Around 80 students from a cooking school in Osaka will demonstrate their final procedure to complete a shrine made of 500 “dorayaki” pancakes, 40 kg of chocolate and 400 cookies from Wednesday through Friday to pray for good luck on Valentine’s Day. The performances ...
