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 terror lasted less than two minutes: smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient egyptian city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 300 meters to the ground. A ...
A deeply divided Senate votes to confirm Chuck Hagel as U.S. defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama's choice the job just days before billions of dollars in budget cuts hit the military.
A U.S. appeals court has labeled militant conservationist group Sea Shepherd as pirates and cleared the way for Japanese whalers to pursue legal action against them. “You don’t need a peg leg or an eye patch” to be a pirate, declared Alex Kozinski, chief ...
A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor catches fire and crashes, killing at least 18 foreign tourists, four of whom are believed to be Japanese.
S-Pulse manager Afshin Ghotbi aims to take club to a higher level this season.
Following its only big-scoring game so far, manager Koji Yamamoto’s Japan lineup will face more scrutiny after being stymied by the Hanshin Tigers 1-0 in a World Baseball Classic tuneup game on Tuesday at Kyocera Dome. Hanshin drew first blood in the bottom of ...
A government panel on education proposes that schools enforce suspensions of bullies more strictly.
The government plans to ease vehicle import screening procedures to encourage the United States to approve Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The transport ministry unveils steps to aid airlines forced to keep their Boeing 787 jets grounded.
Diego Maradona returned to Italy on Monday in a bid to clear his name in a tax evasion case. The 1986 World Cup winner with Argentina landed in Rome dressed in black and wearing dark glasses before heading straight to Naples, where he will ...
Roger Federer rallied past Tunisian wild card Malek Jaziri 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the Dubai Championships. The second-ranked Federer is looking for his sixth title in Dubai. He next faces Albert Montanes or Marcel Granollers. Federer was ...
Japanese whalers and militant conservationists have again been in dangerous clashes off Antarctica, with both sides accusing the other of ramming their vessels. Veteran antiwhaling campaigner Paul Watson said that on Monday the factory ship Nisshin Maru rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s much ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee said Tuesday it has debriefed at least 11 of the 15 female judo wrestlers who lodged a joint complaint accusing their former coach of physical and verbal violence. JOC executive member Yosuke Fujiwara said the interviews of the women, which ...
After a quiet game in the series opener, Gunma Crane Thunders point guard Jermaine Dixon lit up the scoreboard for 28 points in a 78-75 bounce-back win over the host Sendai 89ers on Tuesday night in the bj-league. Dixon was 9-for-16 from the field ...
The Boston Celtics weren’t too tired after playing five games in seven days back and forth across time zones. They had enough left to play overtime to close out a long Western road trip, beating the Utah Jazz 110-107 on Monday night. Thirty-five-year-old Paul ...
Two U.S. sailors pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping and injuring a woman in her 20s in Okinawa last October. A lawyer for Petty Officer 3rd Class Skyler Dozierwalker, 23, from Fort Worth Naval Air Base in Texas, told the Naha District Court that he ...
The Bank of Japan may pack a bigger punch under Haruhiko Kuroda, an opponent of deflation who ran the nation’s currency policy and then built an international reputation leading the Asian Development Bank. Finance Minister Taro Aso told reporters Monday that Kuroda, Prime Minister ...
The American media recently made a big to-do over Michael Jordan turning 50. Among noted outlets, Sports Illustrated devoted the greater part of an issue to His Airness. And ESPN the Magazine likewise allocated huge space to the beginning of Mike’s sixth decade on ...
Foreigners with low Japanese-language ability who live in Tokyo and have pets often worry about finding proper care for their animals and medical professionals who can communicate the necessary diagnostic and treatment information. Tracey Perkins, an Australian who lives in Minato Ward with two ...
The Japanese soccer pyramid will add a third tier in 2014 as the J. League decided on Tuesday to introduce J3 next year. The new third division is expected to be made up of around 10 clubs from the Japan Football League and the ...
