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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Members of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s local party, Osaka Ishin no Kai, and New Komeito, which form the ruling coalition in the municipal assembly, voted against an ordinance proposal Monday that would have clarified the city’s financial responsibilities in the event of health problems ...
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed in telephone talks late Sunday that they hope to strengthen the bilateral security alliance. The Japan-U.S. alliance is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, and Japan hopes ...
The Japan Coast Guard has freed the skipper of a Chinese coral fishing boat who was arrested Saturday for illegally operating in Japan’s exclusive economic zone near Okinawa’s Miyako Island. The coast guard decided Sunday to release the 63-year-old captain, Xue Changlong, after he ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to issue nonbinding price targets for next-generation cars, including electric vehicles, as part of a new three-year incentive program due to start in fiscal 2013, a METI official said Monday. The ministry has earmarked ¥30 billion ...
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Monday its group net profit in the April-December period plunged 40.1 percent from a year ago to ¥49.14 billion due in part to refunds made to the Defense Ministry and others for purposely overcharging on defense contracts. Mitsubishi Electric, one ...
Yasushi Akimoto was one of six people who won an Annie Award on Saturday for music for the Disney movie “Wreck-It Ralph,” which was also named the best animated film for 2012. Akimoto, creator of some of Japan’s top idol groups, including the AKB48 ...
Takeshi Tokuda has stepped down as parliamentary secretary for land, infrastructure, transport and tourism for “personal reasons,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. Tokuda is the first parliamentary secretary in the Cabinet established by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following the general election in ...
Traffic accidents have witnessed an overall decline in recent years, but the percentage of cases involving bicycles is on the rise. National Police Agency data show bicycles were involved in 20.8 percent of all traffic accidents in 2011, up 18.5 percent from 2001.
At the same time the U.S. government certified the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as safe, federal rules barred the type of batteries used to power the airliner's electrical systems from being carried as cargo on passenger planes because of the fire risk.
Japan Airlines, which made a comeback from bankruptcy, says its net profit fell 3.7 percent in the first three quarters of 2012, but the carrier shrugged off the impact from its grounded 787s, raising its full-year profit estimate. The ¥140.6 billion profit the company ...
Shinzo Abe said he is planning to move out of his Tokyo home and into the Prime Minister’s Official Residence in March. It has been taking Abe around 15 minutes to travel to the office by motorcade from his home since Dec. 26, when ...
An 18-year-old Somali accused of trying to hijack an oil tanker operated by a Japanese firm pleaded guilty Monday but denied playing a key role in the attack. The defendant, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, said during the lay ...
The Berlin International Film Festival will support a movie festival to be held in earthquake- and tsunami-hit Sendai in March, Dieter Kosslick, director of the world-renowned Berlinale, said. The local festival, named “Berlinale in Sendai,” is being organized by a group of the city’s ...
Japan will host an international meeting next week to discuss financial assistance for the Palestinian Authority and pave the way for resuming direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis, officials said Monday. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is expected to attend the two-day Tokyo meeting ...
The possibility of Kyushu being hit by a magnitude 6.8 or stronger temblor within 30 years is between 30 to 42 percent under newly revised criteria, a recent report by the government’s earthquake research panel shows. The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion under the ...
Financial authorities are considering requiring branches of foreign banks in Japan to join the deposit insurance program amid continuing turbulence in the global financial system. The deposit insurance system is designed to protect up to ¥10 million per customer in principal and interest in ...
A project is under way to create hiking courses on Mount Mitake in Ome, northwest Tokyo, so hikers can take their dogs for walks around the mountain, which is home to a Shinto shrine honoring a mythical dog. The Ome Chamber of Commerce and ...
Former two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima will not retire any time soon, saying Monday that he will continue to compete for at least another season. “I want to enjoy swimming this year,” said the 30-year-old Kitajima, who did not win an individual ...
Japan plans to unveil a package of measures in June to help African countries maintain security and prevent armed conflicts, government officials said. The measures will be announced when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with African leaders to discuss support for the region, the ...
Michiko Yamaoka, who was disfigured in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and later underwent reconstructive surgery in the United States, died Saturday of pneumonia at a nursing facility for the elderly in Hiroshima, her family said. She was 82. Yamaoka was one of ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso on Monday asked the opposition for prompt cooperation in passing the bill on the supplementary budget to “solidify the recovery of Japan’s economy.” Touching on the economy during his financial policy speech to the Diet, Aso repeated that Japan is ...
Once the exclusive preserve of women, beauty parlors, nail salons and cosmetics retailers nationwide are seeing an uptick in the number of male staff. Kei Kishimoto, 28, has been working as a beauty consultant for Shiseido Co. at a drugstore in Osaka for over ...
Tokyo stocks have surged over the past 2½ months, propelled to their highest in 33 months by monetary and fiscal stimulus measures being advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and receding jitters over the global economy. While many market analysts predict the Tokyo market ...
The industry ministry is considering fully liberalizing the retail electricity business in 2016 as part of broader reforms designed to fuel competition in the power industry, sources said. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry may also require utilities to spin off their transmission ...
For me personally, early 2012 and the same period this year are much the same all-round as far as work, private life and everything else goes. No big differences. But I will change my job later this year, so that's something to look forward ...
Not too long ago, I heard from a foreign resident of Tokyo looking for a high school for her daughter, a 14-year-old who will begin her final year of junior high in April. Both parent and child were extremely excited about recently discovering a ...
The Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers to win the Super Bowl for the second time in franchise history.
Roy Derrick maneuvered his forklift with a pallet of neatly boxed expired produce and flowers and dropped it into an industrial compactor at Safeway’s cavernous return center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. As the compactor hummed, compressed food and floral scraps spilled through a chute ...
Wild plants and meals of swamp wallaby, lizard, or wombat sustained Australia’s indigenous people for tens of thousands of years before British settlers brought a radical change of diet. But so-called “bush tucker” — the local fruits, shoots and creatures that also include kangaroo ...
A Dutch architect has designed a house “with no beginning or end” to be built using the world’s largest 3-D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be used to print houses on the moon. Janjaap Ruijssenaars, 39, of Universe Architecture in Amsterdam, wants ...
A proposed agreement on fresh tomatoes imported into the U.S. from Mexico would strengthen antidumping enforcement and reset minimum wholesale prices, the Commerce Department says. The agreement with Mexico’s tomato industry would suspend an investigation initiated after Florida tomato growers complained that Mexican producers ...
Under draft legislation set to be announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on Monday, Britain’s biggest banks will face being broken up if they fail to ring-fence their retail and investment arms. The new law will empower the government and a new ...
An Iraqi telecommunications company raised nearly $1.3 billion Sunday on Baghdad’s small stock exchange in one of the region’s biggest share offers in years — a sign of investor confidence in the fledgling private sector despite violence that still plagues the country. In a ...
The federal government wants to create Wi-Fi networks across America, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month. The proposal from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ...
Israel’s airstrike on Syria last week may have damaged the country’s main research center on biological and chemical weapons, The New York Times reported Sunday. Wednesday’s attack targeted surface-to-air missiles and an adjacent military complex believed to house chemical agents, a U.S. official said. ...
Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, an unusual twist in a case that has become a byword for Russian corruption and severely strained U.S. relations with Moscow. Russia’s top court ruled in August 2011 ...
Australia’s ruling Labor Party is heading for a huge defeat in elections this year, according to the first national polls Monday since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a vote would be held in September. Labor ministers insisted a win was still possible as major ...
He said he killed 160 people, perhaps many more, making him one of the leading U.S. military snipers of all time. In the course of four combat deployments to Iraq, he said insurgents nicknamed him “the devil of Ramadi” and placed a $20,000 bounty ...
The oil and gas industry is trying to ease environmental concerns by developing nontoxic fluids for the drilling process known as fracking, but it is not clear whether the new product will be widely embraced by drilling firms. Houston-based energy giant Halliburton Inc. has ...
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed Sunday to refund the money Italians have had to fork out for an unpopular property tax if his coalition wins this month’s elections. Speaking at a rally in Milan, he vowed to scrap the levy and refund the ...
When the flames at the cremation ground are quenched and Cambodia’s former monarch Norodom Sihanouk’s ashes scattered on Phnom Penh’s riverfront, the mighty Mekong River may well carry away the country’s last true king, a towering figure in a procession of more than 100 ...
Prince Willem-Alexander’s ascension to the Dutch throne in April promises to be a shining moment on the world stage for his wife, Maxima, and her home country of Argentina. But there will be a glaring absence at the ceremony. Queen Beatrix’s announcement last week ...
A Taiwanese admiral has been questioned over his alleged involvement in one of the island’s worst espionage cases, officials said Monday, as concerns mount over Chinese infiltration of the military. Defense Ministry spokesman David Lo announced the admiral has come under investigation, but declined ...
France said it carried out major airstrikes Sunday near Kidal, the last bastion of armed extremists chased from Mali’s desert north in a lightning French-led offensive, after a whirlwind visit by President Francois Hollande. An army spokesman said 30 warplanes had bombed training and ...
Muhammad Ali’s daughter knocked down rumors of her father being near death Sunday, saying he was at home watching the Super Bowl. May May Ali said she talked to her father Sunday morning on the phone and he was fine. She said he was ...
On Jan. 1, The Japan Times’ lead story was “Summer poll to keep Abe in check.” It made the argument that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party alliance falls short of a majority in the Upper House, so until elections happen this summer ...
One of the most common issues that comes up in sessions with patients at our clinic in Tokyo is depression, and one of the most frequently asked questions is “How can psychotherapy help people with depression?” This is a complex question that depends on ...
Forwards Sergio Parisse and Martin Castrogiovanni scored a try each as Italy beat France 23-18 in the Six Nations championship on Sunday to deal a massive blow to French title hopes. Two years ago, Italy stunned France with a 22-21 win in Rome and ...
Phil Mickelson completed a wire-to-wire victory in the Phoenix Open on Sunday, again flirting with history in a dominating run at TPC Scottsdale. Mickelson shot a 4-under 67 to finish at 28-under 256, two strokes off the PGA Tour record of 254 set by ...
With attention on her personal life intensifying, Lindsey Vonn will be surrounded by bodyguards at the Alpine skiing world championships. An average of 30,000 fans per race are expected in this small Alpine village during the 13-day championships, which start Tuesday with the women’s ...
Quarterback Joe Flacco put off contract talks with the Baltimore Ravens until after the season was done. Seems like a terrific decision now, huh? Capping a perfect postseason, the unassuming and unheralded Flacco completed 22 of 33 passes for 287 yards and three first-half ...
Both on the court and along the sidelines, the Miami Heat will be well represented at this month’s NBA All-Star Game. LeBron James scored 30 points, Chris Bosh had 28 against his former team and the Heat beat Toronto 100-85 Sunday for their 10th ...
Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa will aim to get his club career going by making his first appearance for Japan on Wednesday since October. Kagawa, who was absent for the Asian champions’ 2-1 away win to Oman in November with a left-knee injury, came ...
Liverpool did traditional rival Manchester United a huge favor in the Premier League on Sunday, holding Manchester City to a 2-2 draw to leave the stuttering champions nine points behind their neighbors in the title race. Sergio Aguero’s 79th-minute equalizer earned City a scarcely ...
Martin Brodeur isn’t the only New Jersey Devils goalie who knows a thing or two about shutouts. Veteran backup Johan Hedberg made 22 saves for his 22nd career blanking, and Steve Bernier scored two of New Jersey’s three third-period goals in the Devils’ 3-0 ...
Prosecutors seize records of state interviews with Masao Yoshida, the former manager of the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, as part of a criminal probe into Japan's worst nuclear plant disaster.
Everyone graduates from high school knowing how to read, write and do basic math (you would hope). But to be a self-sufficient adult, those skills are not enough. In fact, they’re nowhere close to enough. Advanced skills in academic areas aren’t going to help ...
Spend a day with any leader in any organization, and you’ll quickly discover that the person you’re shadowing, whatever his or her official title or formal position, is actually in sales. These leaders are often pitching customers and clients, of course. But they’re also ...
People in the market for new single-family houses usually don’t worry as much about the land those houses occupy because they tend to work with developers, who purchase huge tracts and then subdivide them. The customer buys the land and the house as a ...
An antipiracy bill is being prepared to let foreign security contractors on Japanese flag-bearing vessels carry firearms while sailing off Somalia and other pirate-infested waters.
After Japan wraps up a 5-0 win over Indonesia to set up a tie against either South Korea or India, Japan captain Minoru Ueda says his team has learned a lot about itself in the absence of ace Kei Nishikori.
Yuki Kawauchi outdueled London Olympian Kentaro Nakamoto to win Sunday’s Beppu-Oita Marathon in a race-record time of 2 hours, 8 minutes, 15 seconds. The pair burst away from the field after 28 km, and Kawauchi put Nakamoto in the rearview mirror after the 40-km ...
Highly regarded Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters rookie Shohei Otani is still finding his sea legs, but demonstrates his limber form on the third day of training with the farm team in Okinawa's Kunigami.
This season Rizing Fukuoka head coach Atsushi Kanazawa’s message to his players has been consistent. “Don’t back down,” or some similar expression has been the message, according to Rizing power forward Reggie Warren. And Warren was reminded of that during the hard-fought third quarter ...
A consummate bowling performance by Pakistan on day one of the first test against South Africa suggested it was capable of challenging the top-ranked team in the world. On Saturday, it was bowled out for 49 and left facing the prospect of a heavy ...
Phil Mickelson drew the loudest cheers from the biggest crowd in golf history Saturday as he took a six-stroke lead after three rounds at the Phoenix Open. Mickelson nearly aced the par-3 16th, hitting a 9-iron to a foot to set up a birdie ...
Kyrie Irving wasn’t just interested. He was incredible. With one shot better than his last, Irving scored 35 points, including 13 in the final 2:52, as the Cleveland Cavaliers stunned the Oklahoma City Thunder 115-110 on Saturday. One night after saying he was “disinterested” ...
Adrian Peterson called it a blessing in disguise. Strange way to describe career-threatening major knee surgery. The Minnesota Vikings’ star came back better than ever, just missing Eric Dickerson’s longstanding rushing record and closing out the season with two of the top NFL awards ...
Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins finally found their stride at home. Crosby and Chris Kunitz each had a goal and two assists, and Pittsburgh picked up its first victory of the season on home ice by beating the New Jersey Devils 5-1 Saturday. ...
Bill Parcells was a winner everywhere he coached. Time and time again, he took over struggling franchises and showed them what it takes to be a success, including a pair of Super Bowl titles with the New York Giants. Parcells pulled off another victory ...
The Baltimore Ravens completed their on-field preparations for the Super Bowl with a brief, fun-filled session at the Superdome. Hundreds of team officials, family and friends attended the walk-though, which lasted for 15 minutes. The session was more of a pep rally than a ...
Celebrities, humor, babies and cute animals will once again rule the commercial breaks during Super Bowl XLVII, advertising’s biggest showcase. Here are five spots companies hope will make you skip a bathroom break or beer run during the big game: 1. Samsung Mobile This ...
Chelsea’s week went from bad to worse on Saturday as Newcastle’s French legion of new players inspired a second successive Premier League victory, and Manchester United established a provisional 10-point lead in the title race by beating Fulham. Moussa Sissoko, one of four Newcastle ...
Ireland and England hit the ground running in an explosive start to the Six Nations on Saturday, setting up a potentially title-defining showdown in Dublin next weekend with convincing wins.
A young dolphin has been used to lure a pod of 100 to 150 others to safety after they were in danger of stranding themselves, Australian officials said Sunday. Western Australia’s Department of Environment and Conservation said the dolphins were milling around in shallow ...
Outdoor cats account for the leading cause of death among both birds and mammals in the U.S., according to a new study, killing anywhere between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds each year. The mammalian toll is even higher, concluded researchers from the Smithsonian ...
This story is concerned with money, vast sums of it, amounts quite beyond most people’s imagination. The operative word is chō (兆, trillion).
Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi revealed her love of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” books as she waxed lyrical about her favorite reads at Myanmar’s first international literary festival on Saturday. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who spent years under house arrest under Myanmar’s ...
An 18-year-old high school student won third place at the prestigious Prix de Lausanne ballet competition in Switzerland over the weekend. “I am satisfied with my performance, but I can’t still believe I became one of the top finishers,” said Masaya Yamamoto of Nomi, ...
Japan will ask the U.N. this month to set up a panel to investigate North Korea over the abduction issue and other human rights violations.
The latest first for fast-reforming Myanmar — its first international literary festival — is putting the spotlight on dozens of the country’s authors, a number of whom once spent time in prison for their writings. The Irrawaddy Literary Festival, which ended Sunday, came as ...
Prosecutors question the former chief of the defunct Nuclear Safety Commission about delays in announcing radiation fallout data during the Fukushima crisis.
Soldiers in World War II-era uniforms march solemnly as Russia marks the 70th anniversary of the end of one of the war's bloodiest battles in the city once known as Stalingrad.
One of out every 10 women aged 24 or younger continues to smoke after becoming pregnant, an Environment Ministry survey said Sunday. The nationwide survey, conducted on some 33,000 pregnant women and their partners from 2011 to 2012, also said 63 percent of their ...
The cathedral of Notre Dame — French for “our lady” — has finally gotten the prima donna worthy of its name. Weighing in at 6,000 kg of glistening bronze, this lady is no ordinary person: She is a bell named Mary. Mary is in ...
Her parents called her “bitiya,” or little daughter. She was her family’s biggest hope. In a country where women are routinely pushed into subservience, this 23-year-old who dreamed of becoming a doctor was going to lift them out of poverty. “Without her we are ...
Keidanren, the influential business lobby also known as the Japan Business Federation, plans to send a large-scale mission to Myanmar and Cambodia from Monday through Saturday. Keidanren hopes to address problems blocking Japanese companies from doing business in Myanmar, including flaws in its legal ...
When reporters from The New Yorker, “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Good Morning America,” The Associated Press and The Washington Post, have all converged upon one event, it must be important. An appearance by the president. A press conference about dignified matters, with ...
While a blimp hovers not too far in the distance, circling over tens of thousands of Super Bowl revelers, Christopher Weaver looks around at the neighborhood where he was born and raised and almost died. He loves this place, probably more now than he ...
It’s a riddle faced by cash-strapped governments the world over: How can people be persuaded to make decisions that leave them healthier and happier, while saving taxpayers’ money at the same time? In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has set up a team to ...
The Baltimore Ravens will defeat the San Francisco 49ers in a defense-minded Super Bowl, predicted Greg Cosell, a senior producer at NFL Films Inc. The Ravens are “underrated by many, many people,” Cosell, who foresaw the New York Giants’ upset Super Bowl victory a ...
The video would be viewed more than 23 million times, making it perhaps the most watched footage of the Afghan war. It began last April when U.S. Army Pfc. Ted Daniels pressed the record button on his helmet camera. The device captured what he ...
Two days before President Barack Obama’s first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried to settle a brewing mystery when it released a photo to back his claim to be a skeet shooter. Obama had set inquiring minds spinning ...
Even Americans who have never touched a gun are probably familiar with the looks and names of a few — the military M16, the action-movie’s Uzi, the historic Colt .45. The terms thrown around in the national debate over gun control can be harder ...
New Orleans is awash in money, with an estimated $185 million having changed hands in the runup to the Super Bowl game today. The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers will be among those spending more than they are making, according to executives from ...
Sony Corp., trying to reverse a two-year decline in PlayStation sales, is prepping a powerful new version of the home console to deliver more realistic games and entertainment features, an analyst said. Sony “is 100 percent certain to announce the PlayStation 4″ at a ...
The United States’ pivot to Asia will not mean any new bases in the region, but existing alliances will be strengthened and modernized, Adm. Samuel Locklear, the chief of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), said Friday. “The U.S. has no intention of establishing more bases” ...
Can Vukovar also be Bykobap? Whether the name of the war-scarred town on the Danube should be written in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet is a sensitive question, and Croatia’s upcoming entry into the European Union is forcing residents of the Balkan country to ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has chaired a high-level meeting that discussed a looming “great turn” in military capability, state media said Sunday, fueling expectations of an imminent nuclear test. Kim made a “historic” speech at the ruling party’s Central Military Commission meeting, ...
The yen’s recent plunge may help the nation’s struggling electronics makers recover from massive losses, but it could also hamper their restructuring efforts in the long run. After reporting huge group net losses for the April to December period on Friday, senior officials of ...
Despite experts’ best efforts to get to the bottom of the mishaps involving Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners, pinpointing the causes may take a while, leaving the timetable for their return to the skies uncertain. All Nippon Airways Co., which has more 787s than any ...
The mass shootings that have rocked communities across the country in recent years — from Blacksburg, Virginia, to Tuscon, Arizona, to Aurora, Colorado, to Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to Newtown, Connecticut — have left a well-documented trail of carnage and grief. But those tragedies and ...
To the delight of gay activists, France’s National Assembly on Saturday overwhelmingly approved a key piece of legislation that will allow homosexual couples to marry and adopt children. Deputies voted 249-97 in favor of Article One of the draft law, which redefines marriage as ...
When the Cold War gripped the world, leftist terrorists staged spectacular attacks in a doomed campaign to overthrow governments and impose their vision of a socialist utopia. The bulk of these extremist groups eventually drifted into oblivion, gutted by police pressure, internal rifts and ...
Spring is around the corner, according to America’s most celebrated groundhog. In an annual ritual with early roots in German folklore, a Pennsylvania groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil was interpreted Saturday as predicting an early end to winter. According to his handlers at the ceremony ...
There is a legal way to try to get any gun you want somewhere in the United States, thanks to the maze of gun statutes across the country and the lack of certain federal laws. An Associated Press analysis found that thousands of laws, ...
Federal regulators are struggling to overcome substantial industry opposition and implement a sweeping aviation safety law that was enacted after the last fatal U.S. airline crash nearly four years ago, according to a report by a government watchdog. The Federal Aviation Administration is experiencing ...
A country doctor, a tiny, dilapidated village hospital, an indifferent health bureaucracy — and now, coming to the rescue, volunteers from distant Moscow, bringing furniture, equipment, money and, maybe most important, good cheer. In the background, though, is the Parliament — weighing a law ...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 struck southeast Hokkaido late Saturday, causing blackouts and prompting highway closures in some areas, the Meteorological Agency and local officials said. The focus of the quake, which struck at 11:17 p.m. at a depth of about ...
JIJI Despite the yen’s rapid decline, more major Japanese companies are cutting their annual earnings projections rather than raising them, a survey says. As the earnings season gets under way, the survey released Saturday said that 72 companies had lowered their earnings projections for ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee will begin interviewing the 15 elite female athletes who allege they were victims of physical and verbal abuse starting this week and complete the inquiry this month. The JOC said Saturday it will meet with two to three women at ...
Israel’s president asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday to form the next government, and Netanyahu pledged that his new administration will be committed to advancing peace talks with the Palestinians. Netanyahu now has six weeks to form a coalition government, with an extension ...
Rafael Nadal says he’s not focused on winning his first match in eight months when he returns next week at the Chile Open. The result was not as important for now as achieving “an acceptable level” after a left knee injury forced him to ...
Myanmar’s government and ethnic Kachin rebels in northern Myanmar say they will hold talks in China this week after some of the worst fighting in the country in years. Officials say the talks will begin Monday in the Chinese border town of Ruili. The ...
Queen Elizabeth II dutifully sits through endless hours of displays of military pomp rehearsed to the second — and secretly loves it when everything goes wrong, Britain’s pageant master says. Maj. Sir Michael Parker, who has spent 46 years producing grand events, told The ...
Australia experienced its hottest month on record in January, despite floods and storms that devastated eastern parts of the country, officials said. The Bureau of Meteorology said both the average mean temperature of 29.6 degrees and the average mean maximum temperature of 36.9 surpassed ...
Masanori Murakami, Japan’s first major leaguer, is now the United Nations High Commission for Refugees’ first athlete to act as a goodwill ambassador. It is not that Japanese players do not support charities, but rather that they tend to do so quietly. Murakami said ...
Aiko Uemura soared through qualifying before dropping off to a fifth-place finish in Saturday’s World Cup dual moguls. Uemura was second in qualifying, but flopped in the quarterfinals. America’s Hannah Kearney earned her 33rd career victory in the event. Japan’s Arisa Murata was eighth. ...
Olympic gold-medal gymnast Aly Raisman and New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia will be among the honorees at the 33rd annual Thurman Munson awards dinner. The Mets’ Ike Davis, the Giants’ Chris Canty and former Knick Greg Anthony also will be recognized for their ...
The National Diet Library has launched a public-private pilot program that provides online access to its books free of charge. The program, led by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, creates digital files of the library’s books to allow access via smartphones and other gadgets. ...
A Saudi preacher who raped his 5-year-old daughter and tortured her to death has been sentenced to pay “blood money” to the mother after having served a short jail term, activists said Saturday. Lama al-Ghamdi was admitted to a hospital on Dec. 25, 2011, ...
Teenager Sara Takanashi finished fifth in Sunday’s World Cup women’s ski jumping event at Miyamori hill in Hokkaido. The 16-year-old local product landed a pair of 86-meter jumps to amass 225.4 points as she missed a World Cup podium finish for the second straight ...
Taliban militants wearing suicide vests fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at an army post in northwestern Pakistan in a predawn raid Saturday, killing 23 people, including 10 civilians, officials said. Twelve attackers also were killed in the assault. The raid came a day ...
Paul Gascoigne’s life may be in danger, the troubled England soccer hero’s agent said late Saturday. Terry Baker told BBC radio that the former Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio and Rangers star, who has battled alcoholism and depression for many years, “immediately needs to ...
A suicide car bombing followed by an assault by grenade-throwing gunmen on a police headquarters in a disputed city in northern Iraq killed at least 30 people Sunday. The vehicle that was detonated in Kirkuk was painted to appear as though it was a ...
President Francois Hollande received a rapturous welcome in Mali on Saturday as he promised that France would stay as long as necessary to continue the fight against Islamist rebels in the north. As troops worked to secure Kidal, the last bastion of radicals who ...
The Washington Post disclosed Saturday that it had suffered a cyber-attack and suspects Chinese hackers were behind it, joining Twitter and major U.S. media outlets that have endured intrusions. The Post said the attack was detected in 2011. Company officials would not comment on ...
Groundbreaking talks between the Russian foreign minister and the Syrian opposition leader have bolstered a global push to narrow sharp differences over how to end the conflict in Syria. After Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz al-Khatib met for the ...
