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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She didn’t know the man in the casket, never met him or his family. Yet, Kate Hopkins stood watch over 48-year-old Francisco Carmona’s funeral on a gray, cold day in a Kentucky cemetery. Hopkins joined a group of students, a few county employees and ...
Lexus topped all automotive brands in Consumer Reports magazine’s 2013 brand report card. Japanese automakers again dominated the rankings, taking eight of the top 10 spots. Lexus vehicles are rarely sporty, but they earned the top score of 79 points out of 100 because ...
Virtuoso movie director Nobuhiko Obayashi has created a film that pays homage to Tohoku’s postdisaster recovery in an unusual collaboration with all-girl pop idol group AKB48. The short feature, lasting around an hour, serves as a promotional video for AKB48′s new single “So long!” ...
March means the (eventual) return of nice weather, so you no longer have to bundle up or stay indoors cursing the cold world beyond your apartment. And as the climate warms up, for those in need of more incentive to venture outside, there are ...
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have seized a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California. Police told the Televisa network that the device was made up of a plastic pipe and a ...
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — to the country with possibly the world’s strictest dress code: North Korea. Arriving in Pyongyang, the American athlete and showman known as “The Worm” became ...
Gaza militants on Tuesday fired a rocket into Israel for the first time in three months, rattling a cross-border truce that has held since Israel’s military offensive against the Hamas-run territory. Israel closed Gaza’s main cargo crossing until further notice, an apparent warning to ...
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra summed up the efforts of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in three words: “Video game numbers,” he said. Both put up monster stat lines. And the Miami Heat needed them. James scored 40 points and added a career-high 16 assists, ...
Sakura Front, a charity group set up by Japanese living in London, is increasing its activity ahead of the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake that hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011. The group is calling for supporters to wear ...
According to folklore, Europeans have always treated their food with reverence, eating grandma’s slow-cooked stews concocted with farm-fresh ingredients while Americans wolfed down the genetically modified, chemically preserved junk symbolized by burgers and fries. Over the past two weeks, however, Europeans have watched an ...
The Osaka High Court on Tuesday reduced a 20-year prison term for a murderer with Asperger’s syndrome imposed by citizen judges that was four years longer than prosecutors sought. Citing society’s lack of means to handle people with such developmental disorders, the high court ...
J. League clubs got off to a less than stellar start in the 2013 Asian Champions League on Tuesday as 2007 champions Urawa Reds lost 3-0 away to Guangzhou Evergrande while Vegalta Sendai failed to mark their continental debut with a victory, having to ...
Maybe it’s bargain shopping. Maybe it’s the fallout from the strict U.S. security climate. Maybe it’s a sign of China becoming more comfortable with its international role. But as Chinese companies and entrepreneurs move to invest more overseas, they have been drawn increasingly to ...
A Vancouver junior hockey coach has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for tripping a player during a postgame handshake. Martin Tremblay swept out the leg of an opposing player while the teams were going through the typical hockey ritual of lining up ...
Stocks lost further ground Wednesday on concerns over the political turmoil on Italy. The Nikkei 225 closed down 144.84 points at the day’s low of 11,253.97 after diving 263.71 points Tuesday. The Topix slumped 13.05 points to end at 953.72 after losing 13.93 points ...
Mike Krzyzewski said again Tuesday he doesn’t plan to return as U.S. men’s basketball coach after leading the Americans to two Olympic gold medals. Saying “my stance hasn’t changed,” Krzyzewski told ESPN Radio he expects USA Basketball to name a new coach this summer. ...
An exhibition based on the 1945 A-bombing of Nagasaki began Monday in Khartoum to inspire a country hit by a decades-long civil war that killed 2 million people before it ended in 2005. “We want to convey to Sudanese people how Nagasaki recovered from ...
Five-time NBA champion Derek Fisher isn’t planning on his latest stint with the Oklahoma City Thunder being his last chance to play in the league. He has just one goal in mind and he’ll wear a reminder of it on his jersey in every ...
It didn’t take long for Bobby Valentine to move past his year to forget in Boston. Of course, there was a new challenge to help him along the way. Some five months after being fired as manager of the Red Sox, Valentine was introduced ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party-led government will adopt new national defense program guidelines by year’s end, replacing those drafted by his predecessor administration, led by the Democratic Party of Japan, amid China’s accelerating moves to modernize its military. The LDP administration will ...
