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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The U.S. Justice Department plans to sue Standard & Poor’s over its rating of mortgage bonds prior to the 2008 financial crisis, S&P said Monday. The suit, according to S&P, targets its 2007 ratings of certain collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), packages of mortgages sold ...
Women in Paris can finally wear trousers without fear of criminal prosecution after the government said a more than 200-year-old ban no longer has any legal effect. Minister of Women’s Rights Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, , said that the ban, imposed in 1800, is incompatible with ...
For eight days after the Islamists set fire to one of the world’s most precious collections of ancient manuscripts, the alarm inside the building blared. It was an eerie, repetitive beeping, a cry from the innards of the injured library that echoed around the ...
The dollar fell back below ¥92.20 in Tokyo trading Tuesday on the heels of a slump by the euro versus both the dollar and the yen on revived concerns about European fiscal problems. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥92.19-21, down from ...
Officers stormed an underground bunker in Alabama where a 5-year-old boy had been held hostage for nearly a week, rescuing the child and leaving the boy’s abductor dead, officials said Monday. Steve Richardson with the FBI’s office in Mobile, Alabama, said at a news ...
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative firm, TerraCycle, in Trenton, New Jersey, says there is no such thing as trash, even ...
Canada started phasing out its penny, the nuisance coins that clutter dressers and cost more than their one-cent value to produce. The Royal Canadian Mint on Monday officially ended its distribution of pennies to financial institutions. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced last year they ...
The video outraged Egyptians, showing riot police strip and beat a middle-aged man and drag him across the sidewalk as they cracked down on protesters. The followup was even more startling: In his first comments afterward, the man insisted the police were just trying ...
North Korea, poised to conduct a nuclear test any day now, has posted a video on YouTube depicting a U.S. city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack. The footage was uploaded Saturday by the North’s official website, Uriminzokkiri, which ...
Stocks retreated sharply Tuesday, dragged down by selling to cash in gains after the recent surge. The Nikkei 225 average closed down 213.43 points, or 1.90 percent, at 11,046.92. On Monday, the key market gauge climbed 69.01 points. The Topix fell 16.05 points, or ...
It’s computer scrolling, not ancient scrolls, for Jewish culture lovers as the world’s most famous Yiddish newspaper relaunched its website Monday in a bid to stave off extinction. Forverts, founded in 1897 when Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe were pouring into America, has been ...
As France’s airstrikes in Mali push back Islamist militants, the challenge now is to secure peace in the arid north by enlisting the support of nomadic Tuaregs whose bid for a separate homeland sparked the yearlong crisis. Talks with the Tuaregs are considered crucial ...
The U.S. stock market closed out its worst day so far this year, bringing the Dow average back below 14,000. The drop, which erased 129 points from the Dow Jones industrial average, came on the first trading day after the index closed above 14,000 ...
In her first public statement released Monday, Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ educational rights, said she is “getting better day by day.” The 15-year-old said she has been given a “second life” to ...
The U.S. military was closely tracking a one-eyed bandit across the Sahara in 2003 when it confronted a hard choice that is still reverberating a decade later. Should it try to kill or capture the target, an Algerian jihadist named Moktar Belmoktar, or let ...
The identification of King Richard III’s skeleton is the latest coup by forensic scientists who use radiocarbon-dating, DNA analysis, 3-D scanning and other high-tech tools to unlock the secrets of the long dead. Other famous cases include: “Oetzi” the Iceman: In 1991, hikers in ...
President Lee Myung Bak believes North Korea could detonate multiple devices when it goes ahead with a nuclear test expected in the coming weeks or even days. In an interview published Tuesday in the Chosun Ilbo daily, the outgoing president also acknowledged the huge ...
Officials in the city of Otsu admit there was a causal link between a student's suicide and the bullying he was subjected to by his classmates.
The high-ranking judo official who appointed abusive national women's coach Ryuji Sonoda resigns.
Scientists rescue the remains of Richard III from anonymity — and the monarch's fans hope a revival of his reputation will soon follow.
An investigation uncovers evidence that a Singapore-based crime gang is closely involved in fixing soccer matches.
There is an option for budding game-developers, however — a less expensive one that allows for more freedom and, if they’re lucky, more exposure than they could ever imagine.
The female judoka who allege they were abused in Olympic training want the All Japan Judo Federation to overhaul its entire staff, not just one coach, their lawyer warns.
Defense contractors are assured that Japanese-made parts for the U.S. F-35 stealth fighter would be exempt from the ban on weapons exports — even if they go to third countries.
Leading kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro XII, popular for his grand and expansive style of acting, dies of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital.
A secret U.S. legal review reportedly concludes the president has the power to order pre-emptive cyberstrikes if credible evidence of a major digital attack is discovered.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it expects to record a ¥120 billion group net loss for the year ending in March instead of ¥45 billion as previously forecasted on expanding fuel costs for thermal power generation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The ...
The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Japan, sparking warnings Monday of health risks for young people and those in poor health. The environment ministry’s website has been overloaded by worried people trying to determine what exactly is ...
