Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
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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Alan wants to know where he can get a Panama hat cleaned and blocked. “Now that they are back in fashion — albeit with a different age group than formerly — perhaps someone out there knows?” This is not as easy as it might ...
Tokubetsu Buyo Koen ‘The Brad Pitt of kabuki,” swooned The Daily Telegraph; “the kabuki kid,” meanwhile, is how The Guardian dubbed him. But it’s not just the English press getting hot under the collar for dashing tachiyaku (male lead) Ichikawa Ebizo, whose circle of ...
Fast Food Nation If Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me” made the case that fast food is bad for your body, Richard Linklater’s “Fast Food Nation,” adapted from Eric Schlosser’s best-selling expose, shows us how it’s bad on so many other levels. Schlosser’s book was ...
The Nintendo The introduction of the Nintendo games console in 1983 ushered in the modern computer game era, and with it obesity, teen violence and the poor form of former Liverpool F.C. goalkeeper David James. The way was paved for the Nintendo after the ...
