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 ...
Japan took control of its 2014 World Cup qualifying group in ferocious style with a 6-0 win over Jordan on Friday to claim maximum points from two games on the road to Brazil. Japan began the final five-team stage with a convincing 3-0 home ...
National team manager Alberto Zaccheroni will take nothing for granted in Friday’s World Cup qualifier against Jordan, but if Japan can build on last weekend’s impressive 3-0 win over Oman, three more points should follow. Japan faces Jordan at Saitama Stadium having opened the ...
National team manager Alberto Zaccheroni admits the importance of making a strong start to the final round of qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup was weighing on his players’ mind ahead of Sunday’s 3-0 win over Oman. Japan laid down an impressive marker in ...
Japan made a comfortable start to the final round of qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup with a 3-0 win over Oman on Sunday night. Keisuke Honda settled Japan’s nerves in front of 63,551 at Saitama Stadium with an exquisite left-footed volley in the ...
Last year may have been a dream come true for Kashiwa Reysol, but forward Junya Tanaka is determined to prevent 2012 from turning into a nightmare. Having pulled off the most unlikely title win in J. League history last season hot on the heels ...
Albirex Niigata prevented Urawa Reds from making up ground on the J.League’s leading pack with a 1-1 draw on Saturday. Reds went into the match at Saitama Stadium fourth in the table despite having taken only four points from their previous four games, and ...
As secret weapons go, there are few better players a J. League team could call on than Brazilian striker Marquinhos. Urawa Reds learned that the hard way in last week’s game against Yokohama F. Marinos when, with two minutes left on the clock and ...
Kawasaki Frontale overcame a nervy finish to beat Jubilo Iwata 4-3 and give manager Yahiro Kazama his first win in charge on Thursday. Kazama was handed the reins at the Kanagawa club late last month after predecessor Naoki Soma was fired after only five ...
First-division debutants Sagan Tosu kept up their impressive start to the J. League season with a 1-1 draw away to reigning champions Kashiwa Reysol on Saturday. Sagan went into the match at Hitachi Stadium fifth in the table with a division-lowest record of three ...
Skeptics may dismiss Vegalta Sendai’s position at the top of the J. League as a fad waiting to blow over, but each passing weekend brings fresh evidence that the Tohoku side intends to stick around for good. Vegalta gave their most emphatic display of ...
