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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Saudi Arabia has been supplying Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar Assad with arms bought from Croatia, according to The New York Times. Citing unnamed U.S. and Western officials, the newspaper reported late Monday that the Saudi-financed “large purchase of infantry weapons” ...
Worried about horse meat in your beef? Try water buffalo, donkey and goat: South African food scientists said they have found all three in mislabeled foods, including beef burgers, ground beef and sausages. A study by three professors at Stellenbosch University found that 68 ...
A shark possibly over 4 meters long killed a swimmer near a popular New Zealand beach Wednesday, then disappeared after police attempting to save the man fired gunshots at it. Muriwai Beach near Auckland was closed after the fatal attack, one of only a ...
The music industry announced Tuesday the first increase in global sales since 1999, suggesting that the long-awaited rebound against the digital revolution has begun. Sales rose 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion in 2012, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which ...
The Florida Panthers broke out of their power-play slump in a big way. Tomas Kopecky recorded his first career hat trick and Tomas Fleischmann had the go-ahead score for his 100th career goal, lifting the Panthers to a 6-4 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a live-fire artillery drill aimed at simulating an “actual war,” state media reported a day after South Korea swore in its first female president. “An endless barrage of shells were fired by artillery pieces on ‘enemy positions,’ ...
Web users who illegally share music, movies or TV shows online may soon get warning notices from their service providers that they are violating copyright law. Ignore the notices, and violators could face an Internet slowdown for 48 hours. Those who claim they are ...
The dollar moved on a soft tone mostly below ¥92 in Tokyo trading Wednesday amid risk-aversion prompted by sluggish stocks. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥91.83-83, almost flat from ¥91.80-81 at the same time Tuesday. The euro stood at $1.3093-3095, up ...
Prosecutors sought prison terms of up to 12 years Wednesday for two U.S. sailors charged with raping and injuring a woman in her 20s in Okinawa last October. In the pair’s lay judge trial before the Naha District Court, prosecutors recommended a 12-year sentence ...
Former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman’s colorful tweets from the heart of Stalinist North Korea appear to have upset South Korea’s best known cultural export, the “Gangnam Style” rapper Psy. In one of several tweets since Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday with members of ...
A coroner’s investigation has showed that a promising English cricketer had taken cocaine and ecstasy before being hit by a train and killed. The London coroner ruled that Tom Maynard’s death in June was an accident. He was hit by a train and electrocuted ...
The head of Istanbul’s bid for the 2020 Olympics hopes a winning vote coincides with wrestling’s reinstatement. The International Olympic Committee executive board voted this month to drop wrestling from the 2020 Summer Games, but the final decision will be made at the assembly ...
“Madonna del Granduca” is a beloved masterpiece by Italian painter Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520), known by most as simply Raphael. Described by critics as one of the great Madonna and child paintings, it was a source of inspiration for many generations of painters. As one ...
Fourth-seed Kei Nishikori retired in the first set of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships on Tuesday due to a nagging left oblique injury. Nishikori, coming off his third career victory at the U.S. National Indoor Championships in Memphis last week, was about to ...
Architect Shigeru Ban is renowned for involving himself in unusual projects, and he has become particularly well-known for his experiments with paper as a cheap and sustainable building material. In response to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, Ban designed paper temporary shelters for victims. ...
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday voted Tuesday to back Obama nominee Jack Lew as Treasury secretary despite qualms about his reputation as a doctrinaire Democrat and his ties to Wall Street. Senators voted 19-5 in favor of Lew, with several Republicans joining ...
A former Illinois legislator who favors an assault weapons ban captured the Democratic nomination Tuesday in the race to replace disgraced ex-U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., after a campaign dominated by gun control issues in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre. Ex-state ...
A fire broke out at an illegal six-story plastics market in Kolkata early Wednesday morning, killing at least 19 people, Indian police said. The blaze, which started before 4 a.m., was likely caused by a short circuit, said West Bengal fire minister Jived Khan. ...
China’s first aircraft carrier is headed for its permanent base in the northern port of Qingdao, where it will be responsible for operations in waters surrounding Japan and the Korean Peninsula, reports said Wednesday. Speculation has swirled over which base the vessel, christened the ...
The Japan Association of Travel Agents said Wednesday it will start certifying the service qualities of parties handling foreign tourists as part of efforts to boost visitors from abroad, whose numbers have fallen since the 2011 natural and nuclear disasters and recently reignited territorial ...
