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 ...
Urawa Reds have suffered too many false dawns in recent years to get carried away by their bright start to the J. League season, but midfielder Yuki Abe is not about to sit back and let local rivals Omiya Ardija pull the plug in ...
J. League leaders Vegalta Sendai preserved their unbeaten start to the season and took the defending champions’ scalp in the process with a 3-2 win over Kashiwa Reysol on Saturday. Vegalta twice took the lead only to be pegged back at Hitachi Stadium, with ...
Cerezo Osaka hit Omiya Ardija with a one-two punch from their Olympic arsenal as Hiroshi Kiyotake and Kim Bo Kyung both found the target in a 3-0 win on Saturday. There was little to separate the two teams after a tight opening period at ...
Nagoya Grampus and Omiya Ardija battled through foul weather conditions to come away with a 1-1 draw on Saturday afternoon. Both teams played their part in an entertaining first half despite high winds at Nack5 Stadium, and Colombian midfielder Danilson Cordoba got the second ...
Relegation is never an achievement to celebrate, but FC Tokyo winger Naohiro Ishikawa believes his side’s perfect start to the J. League season would not have been possible without spending 2011 in the second division. Tokyo heads into Saturday’s match against Sanfrecce Hiroshima second ...
There was always a danger that Gamba Osaka would need time to adapt to life without former manager Akira Nishino, but no one expected things to turn out quite so badly. After cutting ties with Nishino over the offseason following a decade at the ...
Cerezo Osaka ended Kawasaki Frontale’s perfect start to the new J. League season and maintained their own unbeaten record with a 1-0 victory on Saturday. Frontale headed into the match buoyed by two wins from their opening two fixtures, but a 75th-minute goal from ...
FC Tokyo’s perfect start to the new season collapsed with an 88th-minute equalizer as South Korea’s Ulsan Hyundai salvaged a 2-2 draw in the Asian Champions League on Tuesday. An exquisite lob from Yuhei Tokunaga eight minutes before halftime looked to have set Tokyo ...
Urawa Reds beat Kashiwa Reysol 1-0 on Saturday to leave the reigning J. League champions still searching for their first win of the new season. Reysol clinched their first-ever title at Saitama Stadium on the final day of last year’s campaign, but Urawa ensured ...
The future is hardly set in stone after one round of matches, but as the J. League kicked off its 20th season on Saturday, there were some tantalizing glimpses of what lies ahead. The day began with a poignant meeting between two teams who ...
