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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U.S. stocks are having a bad flashback to last spring, when fears of the European debt crisis sent the market spiraling lower. On Monday, election results in Italy showed a potential hung Parliament, leaving investors fearful that the country will be unable to move ...
Major League Baseball has reshuffled its umpire roster for this season after the retirements of crew chiefs Ed Rapuano, Tim Tschida and Derryl Cousins. MLB announced the moves Monday. Jim Joyce, Ted Barrett and Fieldin Culbreth have been promoted to crew chiefs. MLB also ...
Golfer Ai Miyazato, who had been involved in a multicar collision Sunday, was diagnosed at a hospital with whiplash after arriving at her destination in Singapore where she is scheduled to play in the HSBC Women’s Champions, her manager said Monday. Miyazato will decide ...
Tom Brady will be a Patriot until he is 40 years old. Brady agreed to a three-year contract extension with New England on Monday, a person familiar with the contract said. The extension is worth about $27 million and will free up nearly $15 ...
The Oklahoma City Thunder signed veteran Derek Fisher on Monday, filling an opening for a third point guard that was created when Eric Maynor got traded to Portland. Fisher joins Oklahoma City for the stretch run for the second straight season. He played in ...
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
Italy faces political paralysis as results in crucial national elections show no clear front-runner, leaving the country with an unprecedented hung Parliament.
The country with the developed world's biggest gender income gap has its first female president, but Park Geun Hye already has South Koreans wondering whether she'll improve the status of women.
Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and new South Korean President Park Geun Hye agreed Monday that the new governments in both countries should closely cooperate in a future-oriented manner, Aso told reporters. In a meeting in Seoul, Park also indicated to the former prime ...
The government plans to give Filipinos and Indonesians seeking to become nurses and caregivers in Japan an extra year in the country to prepare for qualifying exams, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday. The special measure is based on the low passing rates so ...
Britain's highest-ranking Catholic leader resigns and removes himself from the upcoming conclave, saying he does not want allegations that he engaged in improper conduct with priests to be a distraction during the solemn process of choosing the next leader of the church's 1.2 billion-member ...
Among the 780,000 people employed in Japan’s auto industry, only three are women responsible for the rollout of new models. They all work at Nissan Motor Co. Mie Minakuchi is behind the newest Note hatchback, Nissan’s top domestic seller, which has seen sales triple ...
New research shows that up to a third of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet.
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
Park Geun Hye was inaugurated Monday as South Korea’s first female president, ushering in what many in Japan hope will be a new era in improved bilateral relations, which were strained by her predecessor, Lee Myung Bak. But experts in Japan are unsure if ...
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit Tochigi Prefecture and its vicinity Monday, setting buildings in the capital swaying but causing no tsunami, seismologists said. NHK said no abnormalities were detected at nuclear power plants near the epicenter, which was north of Tokyo, where buildings rocked for ...
The Tokyo District Court said Monday it will accept bids from March 12 to 19 on the headquarters of a pro-Pyongyang residents’ body in an auction to recoup loans to the group by the government-backed Resolution and Collection Corp. Up for sale is the ...
All Nippon Airways Co. President Shinichiro Ito will head the carrier’s new holding company to be set up April 1, sources said Monday. Senior Executive Vice President Osamu Shinobe, 60, will become president of the airline, the sources said, when it is placed under ...
Actor and singer Ryotaro Sugi, known for his roles in numerous samurai dramas, was appointed Monday as special ambassador to promote the 40th anniversary of cooperative ties between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Sugi, 68, will be involved in promotional campaigns ...
Japan and the United States will hold bilateral consultations this week in Tokyo on international terrorism in light of the Algerian hostage incident last month, which claimed the lives of both Japanese and U.S. citizens, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Among the participants expected ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. will voluntarily recall the Omontys anemia drug in the United States in response to reports of fatal reactions in some patients. Omontys is used to treat anemia caused by chronic kidney diseases. In the U.S. market, Takeda has been selling it ...
One man died and another was missing Monday after two Japanese fishing boats were involved in a collision with a Taiwan-registered containership in Osaka Bay. The boats, which belong to a fishery cooperative in Osaka Prefecture, capsized after colliding with the 13,246-ton Wan Hai ...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in talks with its Tokyo landlord to cut office space as it seeks to reduce expenses, two sources said. The Wall Street firm, which rents six floors of the Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills office complex, is in ...
A senior official with the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa said the U.S. military intends to strengthen cooperation with local authorities to conduct relief operations smoothly in the event of a huge earthquake. Robert D. Eldridge, deputy assistant chief of staff of government and ...
Greater effort will be made to recall a humidifier model manufactured by TDK Corp. that is suspected of causing a fatal fire, government sources said Monday. The Consumer Affairs Agency is cooperating with other government agencies to accelerate such efforts, they said. The major ...
The government said Monday it will sell a stake in Japan Tobacco Inc. worth nearly ¥1 trillion to help cover reconstruction costs for the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the country’s largest share offering since 2010. The Finance Ministry owns about 1 billion shares, ...
Sales of luxury goods at domestic department stores are rapidly growing, as the economy shows signs of life apparently due to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies, dubbed “Abenomics.” “Buying appetite among the rich has been on the rise,” said an official at Sogo ...
As Japanese companies continue to look overseas for opportunities to expand, an increasing number are trying to hire foreigners — or what they call “global human resources.” As part of this trend, it is growing more common for foreign students studying here to apply ...
South Korea’s self-employed merchants said Monday they plan to boycott Japanese products to protest Tokyo’s latest sovereignty claim to a pair of islets controlled by South Korea, according to Yonhap News Agency. “The boycott is to show the resolve of merchants to protect Dokdo,” ...
The government will nominate Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda as the next Bank of Japan governor and scholar Kikuo Iwata as one of two deputy governors.
A creature known as “the scavenger of the deep” has surprised its keepers at an aquarium by “fasting” for more than four years. The giant male isopod, called No. 1 to distinguish it from the two other giant isopods kept at Toba Aquarium in ...
The trade ministry plans to beef up its database for cyber-attacks against Japanese companies and institutions to help analyze the latest trends and methods so they can protect themselves from organized assaults. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has already earmarked ¥800 million ...
The new PlayStation 4 reflects Sony Corp.’s renewed focus on value-added products to attract selected customers rather than the general public, as the company struggles to turn its slumping electronics business around. In unveiling the successor to the PlayStation 3 launched in 2006, Sony ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought support Monday from the coalition partner of his Liberal Democratic Party for Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, after he and U.S. President Barack Obama made a key confirmation at their Friday summit in Washington. During a ...
Film distributor Prenom-H Co. has gone bankrupt, affected by China’s dispute over the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Monday. The Tokyo-based company received Tokyo District Court approval for the start of its bankruptcy procedures on Feb. 21, ...
The Environment Ministry said Monday that it will restart the process to select candidate final storage sites for radioactive waste from the triple-meltdown disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 power plant, because residents living near the current chosen locations are up ...
An 18-year-old Somali is sentenced to five to nine years by the Tokyo District Court for boarding and attempting to hijack a Bahama-registered oil tanker off Africa in March 2011.
With the Japan Sumo Association’s release of the new rankings on Monday, yokozuna Harumafuji finally finds himself at sumo’s true summit after his promotion to the prestigious east position. The 28-year-old Harumafuji, who won his fifth career title at the New Year basho in ...
Daisuke Matsuzaka began his fight to make the opening day roster Sunday, pitching two scoreless innings in his first spring appearance for the Cleveland Indians. Under strong winds in the surprising cold against the Cincinnati Reds, Matsuzaka came on in the third, not allowing ...
Kobe Bryant was just a little better than Dirk Nowitzki in a spirited game befitting Western Conference leaders — not teams battling for ninth place. Bryant had 38 points to win a scoring duel with Nowitzki, and Steve Nash helped beat his former team ...
Swansea marked its centenary season by collecting its first major trophy, outclassing fourth-tier club Bradford to win the League Cup final 5-0 on Sunday. Nathan Dyer and Jonathan de Guzman scored twice, and Michu also netted at Wembley Stadium to secure the biggest victory ...
A day after outplaying Japan in a tough loss, Australia cracked in a 10-3 loss in their World Baseball Classic warmup game at Kyocera Dome on Sunday. Kazuo Matsui of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles brought Japan from behind with a three-run triple and ...
Sara Takanashi collected her second medal of the Nordic skiing world championships after Japan won a gold in the mixed team ski jumping Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi teamed up with Yuki Ito and male jumpers Daiki Ito and Taku Takeuchi for Japan’s first gold ...
The Japan Wrestling Federation launched an online petition site to keep wrestling in the Olympics on Monday with the aim of submitting 100,000 signatures to the International Olympic Committee. The website, titled “Save Olympic Wrestling,” can be accessed in several languages. The federation plans ...
It’s debatable whether or not a team needs to play “perfect defensively” to beat Japan as Australia manager Jon Deeble lamented after his team’s 10-3 loss on Sunday night. First, it helps to not commit four errors or allow five unearned runs the way ...
Kei Nishikori beats Feliciano Lopez in the final of the U.S. National Indoor Championships for his third career title.
No matter what goalie the Chicago Blackhawks put into their net, they are coming away with win after win. Corey Crawford completed the task to perfection on Sunday night as he made Andrew Shaw’s goal stand up in a 1-0 victory over the Columbus ...
Cerezo Osaka manager Levir Culpi believes his team is capable of challenging for the J. League title this season, but the Brazilian wishes former protege and current Manchester United star Shinji Kagawa was still around to help him.
Romanian Ambassador Radu Serban is a veteran diplomat with a mission to promote economic ties with Japan. But the envoy, 61, has another agenda — promoting cultural and educational exchanges, which ties into his personal love of Japanese literature, especially haiku. Serban’s love of ...
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
Writer and former fast-food junkie Maggie Fazeli Fard gave an online Q&A with her readers about the journey to healthful eating. Here is an edited excerpt. “Eating clean” usually means avoiding processed food, but there can be different understandings of the term. What do ...
Eiichiro Amakasu, 70, is a carpenter who designs and builds traditional Japanese homes and their surrounding gardens. He is an expert of sukiya, a residential architectural style that is typically associated with Japanese tea houses.
We love the idea of things that clip together, so Nendo’s new Clip Collection for Italian brand Discipline immediately caught our attention. The line includes a table with a glass top that appears to be “clipped” to its frame base and a coat rack ...
In response to the article “Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims” (The Foreign Element, Jan. 28), we invited readers to come up with their own ideas for new types of “harassment.” As you can see, one JT writer got ...
Some choice cuts from "Love With a Western Woman: A Guide for Japanese Men."
Makoto Tsuji Social worker, 35 (Japanese) At first, I thought I preferred Japanese women based on looks, but now I am actually married to an American woman. I was attracted to her as a whole — her personality as well as her looks. Rachel ...
In France, eating is supposed to be an art. Foodies from around the globe flock to the world's gastronomic center to discover the true meaning of fine dining — a convivial sharing of dishes, lovingly prepared, which capture the imagination, the taste buds and ...
Park Geun Hye became South Korea’s first female president Monday, vowing zero tolerance of North Korean provocations and demanding Pyongyang “abandon its nuclear ambitions” immediately. As leader of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, Park, the 61-year-old daughter of late military strongman Park Chung Hee, faces challenges ...
Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam’s jungle canopy. They are scientists’ prescription for a headache that has caused the tiny U.S. territory misery for more than 60 years: the brown tree snake. Most of Guam’s native bird species ...
Pope Benedict XVI delivered an emotional final Sunday prayer in St. Peter’s Square, saying God had told him to devote himself to quiet contemplation but pledging not to “abandon” the church. Tens of thousands of supporters turned out for Benedict’s weekly Angelus prayer, his ...
The mysterious death of a 30-year-old Palestinian gas station attendant in Israeli custody stoked new West Bank clashes Sunday, along with Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising. A senior Palestinian official alleged that Arafat Jaradat was tortured by Israel’s Shin Bet security service, ...
Of the long list of problems the next pope will inherit once the white smoke rises in Rome, few on the diplomatic front can rival the bitter, intractable relationship between the Vatican and the Chinese government. The two powers have long battled for control ...
Two slick new 1.3-km-long tunnels are undergoing final safety tests this month, poised to divert motorists away from an ocean cliff-hanging roadway dubbed Devil’s Slide south of San Francisco to a smooth, Alpine-like passageway unlike any in the U.S. today. The $439 million project, ...
Artwork by British graffiti artist Banksy that appeared listed for auction in the U.S. after disappearing from a London wall earlier this month has been withdrawn from sale, a council official said Sunday. The mural is of a boy making Union Jack bunting on ...
Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage crisis drama “Argo” won the coveted best film Oscar on Sunday at the 85th Academy Awards, Hollywood’s biggest night. Taiwan-born Ang Lee won best director for the 3-D fantasy spectacular “Life of Pi,” Daniel Day-Lewis took home an unprecedented third ...
The dollar climbed above ¥94 in Tokyo trading Monday on news that Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda, an advocate of bold monetary easing, is expected to be nominated to lead the Bank of Japan. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥94.12-17, ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case challenging a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was enacted to prevent persistent discrimination against blacks and other minorities at the polls. The Voting Rights Act effectively keeps ...
How much debt can America handle? The question is one of the most fundamental the nation faces, and the answer should determine how the United States handles the delicate task of reducing budget deficits without walloping economic growth. A new paper argues that the ...
Mozilla Foundation announced Sunday it will launch in midyear its Firefox operating system for smartphones in a direct challenge to the duopoly of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Mozilla, which campaigns for open development of the online world, showed off the first commercial version ...
In an extraordinary construction boom, the isolated Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is spending billions of dollars on remodeling its capital, Ashgabat, into a gleaming white showpiece where even the curbs are made of marble. The gas-rich desert country says that the massive spending ...
Stocks scored robust gains Monday, inspired by a reported government selection of the Bank of Japan’s new chief and expectations of the country’s entry into Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations. The Nikkei 225 average improved by 276.58 points, or 2.43 percent, to finish at the ...
Conservative candidate Nicos Anastasiades won Cyprus’ presidency Sunday by one of the widest margins in 30 years, promising to do what it takes to quickly secure a financial rescue package from international creditors and prevent the country from sliding into economic oblivion. Anastasiades, 66, ...
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III signed a landmark law Monday compensating human rights victims of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, 27 years after a bloodless “People Power” revolution ended his reign. Ten billion pesos ($244 million) will be distributed to potentially thousands of people who were ...
