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 agriculture ministry said Wednesday it will raise wholesale prices for five imported wheat varieties by an average of 9.7 percent to ¥54,990 per ton in April, the second rise since October, due to higher international market prices and the yen’s depreciation. The yen’s ...
Canadian universities and colleges welcomed a record 100,000 foreign students in 2012, the government said Tuesday, part of a plan to replace retiring baby boomers in the workforce. The figure is a 60 percent rise in enrollment from 2004. The government is also working ...
Aides to top Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell voiced outrage Tuesday after a left-leaning group suggested he supported China over the United States due to his Taiwan-born wife. McConnell, who faces re-election next year, is married to former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. She was born ...
A cargo of high-level radioactive waste produced through reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel in Britain arrived Wednesday at a port in Aomori Prefecture for storage. The ship carrying the 28 canisters of vitrified radioactive waste, which left a British port Jan. 9, arrived at ...
The city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a popular tourist destination that attracts around 19 million visitors a year, many of whom visit from nearby Tokyo. It became increasingly popular during the Edo Period (1603-1867), when pilgrimages to its Buddhist sites became a fashionable ...
The city of Amsterdam said Tuesday it will raise the legal age of prostitutes from 18 to 21 and announced plans to close brothels during the early morning hours in a bid to protect sex workers. “The minimum age for a prostitute is raised ...
Two lawmakers on Wednesday left the small opposition Kokumin Shinto (People’s New Party), which seeks to merge with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, making party head Shozaburo Jimi its only remaining Diet member. Takeshi Noma of the Lower House and Kazuyuki Hamada of the ...
Egypt’s main opposition coalition said Tuesday it will boycott upcoming parliamentary elections, a decision likely to push the country into a new round of political turmoil and worsen an already troubled economy. The announcement by the liberal, secular National Salvation Front was made in ...
The head of a fishermen’s cooperative in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, said its members will agree to landfill work necessary for the planned relocation of the Futenma military base to the city’s Henoko coastal area. “We are unable to fish freely in the planned landfill ...
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ President Nobuyuki Hirano is expected to succeed Katsunori Nagayasu as president of its holding company on April 1, sources said Wednesday. Hirano, 61, will continue to serve as president of the banking unit while Nagayasu, 65, who also serves as ...
U.S. banking giant JPMorgan Chase plans to eliminate 19,000 jobs by the end of 2014 as it seeks to rein in costs, the company said Tuesday in an investor presentation. JPMorgan Chase intends the majority of the cuts — 15,000 — to come from ...
The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan backed off from its claim that Taliban attacks dropped off in 2012, tacitly acknowledging a hole in its widely repeated argument that violence is easing and that the insurgency is in steep decline. In response to inquiries from ...
Radical Salafist Muslims murdered Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid, Interior Minister Ali Larayedh said Tuesday, and though four suspects have been arrested and the killer identified, he is still on the run. The breakthrough comes as Larayedh, named as prime minister-designate, presses efforts to ...
The Japanese and Vietnamese construction industries plan to launch a project to train Vietnamese engineers using Japanese technologies, according to industry officials. The two sides are expected to reach a formal agreement on the project when they meet March 7 in Hanoi at a ...
A robot suit designed to help the disabled and elderly in their daily activities was given a safety certification Wednesday by a quality assurance organization, becoming the world’s first “welfare robot” to be so certified. The Hybrid Assistive Limb, or HAL, robot suit developed ...
Britain is seeking to withhold information about Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko at the forthcoming inquest into his death to avoid damaging trade deals with Moscow, a court was told Tuesday. A preinquest hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice heard that Foreign Secretary William ...
Authorities will urge residents to stay indoors if the level of toxic smog spreading to Japan from China is expected to exceed twice the maximum limit set by the central government, officials said. The Environment Ministry guidelines say prefectural governments will recommend that people, ...
Artists have added text to artworks for centuries, usually as a way to enhance or explain a concept. Tadanori Yokoo, however, combines painting and words in ways that often have no purpose at all. Sometimes, lettering is chosen for purely aesthetic purposes — to ...
Chuck Hagel is set to be sworn in as U.S. defense secretary, battered by a confirmation fight even as he faces challenges from Pentagon budget cuts to withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Italian leftist leader Pier Luigi Bersani admits he had "come in first but not won" key elections and asks parties to help him push through reforms amid a political deadlock that has sent markets tumbling.
