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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An artificial earthquake has been detected in North Korea, in a possible indication that the country has carried out its third underground nuclear test, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday morning. Yonhap said a magnitude 5.1 artificial quake was detected in North Korea ...
Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda voices support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's financial policies but keeps mum about speculation he may become the next Bank of Japan governor.
Japan lost to 2011 runner-up Russia 3-2 in the first round of the Fed Cup on Sunday, missing out on its first semifinal berth in 17 years. Ayumi Morita won in the singles for the second straight day, defeating Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-1, but ...
A senior lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party says it is necessary for the government to determine whether to resume nuclear plant operations at an early date.
A large-scale military training exercise began Monday in northern Thailand involving 13,000 personnel from the United States and six Asian countries — Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the host nation. Adm. Samuel Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said at an ...
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson kept Japan midfielder Shinji Kagawa in the stands Sunday as the Premier League leaders prevailed 2-0 at home over Everton. It was the first time Kagawa, who had just returned from Japan after Wednesday’s friendly against Latvia in ...
The search for a fugitive ex-police officer wanted in the slayings of three people takes police to the home of a possible target in a quiet Southern California suburb.
Megumi Tachimoto won the women's over-78 kilogram gold medal on the final day of the Paris Grand Slam on Sunday.
Pope Benedict XVI says Monday he lacks the strength to fulfill his duties and on Feb. 28 will become the first pontiff in 600 years to resign.
Pakistan successfully test-fired on Monday two short-range, nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missiles from a multiple missile launcher, the Defense Ministry said. The ministry gave no information about where the test was carried out. The domestically developed Hatf-IX missiles, with a range of 60 kilometers, can carry ...
The pop-rockers fun. win song of the year at the Grammy Awards for their transcendent anthem, “We Are Young,”
Keiko Fukuda, the first woman to earn a ninth-dan ranking in judo from the Kodokan, died at her home in San Francisco on Saturday at the age of 99. Born in April 1913, Fukuda’s grandfather was a practitioner of jujutsu and one of the ...
A Russian tall ship recognized as the world’s biggest sail ship arrived in Nagasaki on Monday during its first round-the-world voyage since its construction in 1921. About 160 trainees and crew members of the four-masted Sedov were welcomed with a traditional dragon dance performance ...
Local police and coast guard conduct an intensive search for traces of those whose remains have not been found since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster in the coastal areas of Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.
In the wake of claims of physical and verbal abuse made by national women’s judo team members, a Kyodo News survey on Sunday found that training staff in two additional sports admitting knowing of physical abuse. In a questionnaire distributed to coaches and development ...
Many groups in Japan organized political events Monday, the National Foundation Day holiday, on themes of celebration of the country’s establishment and a possible revision of the Constitution. Some expressed concern over moves aimed at revising the pacifist Constitution under the government of Prime ...
Seibu Lions right-hander Kazuhisa Makita threw two hitless innings Monday as he appears to have adapted his grip to the ball to be used in the upcoming World Baseball Classic.
It's been lauded as one of the greatest survival stories of all-time.
Japan World Baseball Classic manager Koji Yamamoto got to see seven of the 33 players invited to the national team training camp in action on Monday in a Yomiuri Giants intrasquad game. The Japan Series champs have eight players on the current Japan roster, ...
There’s nothing glamorous about the industrial warehouse reverberating with the zap of soldering metal, the clatter of hammers and an earsplitting whine of a circular saw, or in the sweat-drenched workers toiling in the midafternoon summer heat among huge bolts of cloth and heavy-duty ...
A stampede kills at least 10 people and injures a dozen more in an Indian train station flooded with people during a Hindu festival that attracts millions.
U.S. television network CBS may have warned stars not to show too much skin on stage Sunday at the Grammys, but the music industry’s A-listers tested the limits in body-conscious, revealing gowns. Jennifer Lopez, whose plunging barely-there green Versace gown at the 2000 Grammys ...
