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 ...
Leonardo DiCaprio admits that he didn’t hear much about the famously feared J. Edgar Hoover while he was growing up. That doesn’t stop him from making an astute observation: “The man was a troll.” He laughs as he continues: “You know how some people ...
Terrence Malick kicks off his new film, “The Tree of Life,” with a bang. The Big Bang, actually. Over the next 138 minutes, the viewer witnesses a journey through history that ends up in a small town in Texas. Critics seem to agree that ...
Johnny Depp is wrestling with a monster. No, it’s not one of the numerous sea monsters from “Pirates of the Caribbean” — it’s the franchise itself. As the world lines up to see the latest installment of the blockbuster series, “Pirates of the Caribbean: ...
BEVERLY HILLS, California — After having announced a week earlier that he had beaten cancer, Michael Douglas took the stage at the Golden Globes awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on Jan. 16 and was greeted with a warm round of applause. “There’s just ...
The Japanese tagline for “The Social Network” translates as “Genius, backstabber, dangerous guy, billionaire.” Probably not the kind of sentiment a website trying to connect friends wants to be associated with. However, for a film — it’s damn sexy. “The Social Network” is about ...
HOLLYWOOD, California — W hen asked about longtime “Harry Potter” costar Emma Watson, with whom he stars in the penultimate film of the blockbuster movie franchise, actor Daniel Radcliffe says: “She’s great. She’ll go far, professionally and educationally.” Radcliffe is referring to Watson’s current ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Colin Firth was nominated for an Oscar for best actor this year for “A Single Man.” As we know, Hollywood insider Jeff Bridges took home the Oscar, but Firth was “genuinely thrilled at the nomination and genuinely relieved when it ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Javier Bardem sounds almost as happy as he was the night he won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for “No Country for Old Men” in 2008. No wonder. He is recently married, to fellow Spaniard and Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz ...
HOLLYWOOD — He’s featured in more than 100 movies spanning six decades, holds the Guinness World Record for most stunts by a living actor, and has enjoyed a career as one of China’s truly global superstars. And despite all this, Jackie Chan continues to ...
HOLLYWOOD — They say nothing is as hot as a slow-burning fire, and Bradley Cooper’s career had been warming up for a number of years before it turned white-hot last year thanks to his starring role in “The Hangover.” The film, which opened earlier ...
