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 ...
This year’s defense white paper underscores China’s rapid military buildup and constant muscle-flexing in the Pacific Ocean as a shared concern of the international community. “The situation surrounding East Asia has been rapidly changing,” Satoshi Morimoto, the fourth defense minister to take office since ...
The United States last month announced that the MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft will be deployed to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa as scheduled in October. The planned deployment has fueled anger among people living in Okinawa, who have long opposed the ...
When Misako Fukuda, 40, went to a cherry-blossom viewing party at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park in April, she did not know the other 30 people who had gathered nor their professions. The only thing she knew about them was what they ate or cooked every ...
When Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi announced her trust in President Thein Sein last August, Tin Win Akbar decided it was time to return home after spending almost 16 years as an exile in Japan. Akbar, 58, who lives in the city ...
The recent endorsement of gay marriage by U.S. President Barack Obama was a milestone for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and could gain more support among younger voters who already overwhelmingly back same-sex marriages, according to a prominent American gay rights activist. ...
The surprise discount campaign announced by AirAsia Japan Co. on Wednesday has been an instant success and drawn much media coverage. The budget airline said the 10,000 one-way tickets it started selling online from midnight priced at ¥5 for routes from Narita to Sapporo ...
A Gunma-based industrial waste disposal firm is suspected of dumping the toxic liquid that polluted part of the Kanto region’s water system last week, the Saitama Prefectural Government said Friday. When its officials conducted an on-site inspection last week at Dowa Hightech Co. in ...
Both the Lower and Upper houses have failed for the last 20 years to respond to requests from an association of private railways to pay for the free train passes member companies provide to lawmakers. The Association of Japanese Private Railways said it has ...
Last in a series Byron Fija, 42, has an identity crisis. Part of it is his looks. He’s Japanese, born to a white American father and an Okinawan mother, a couple who never married, and he seems to take more after his dad. But ...
When observing the history of Okinawa, one can’t ignore the fact that since before World War II it has produced more emigrants than any other prefecture except Hiroshima. People of Okinawan origin currently account for more than 10 percent of the 2.7 million Japanese ...
