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 ...
HOLLYWOOD — Quentin Tarantino is back, making another much-publicized and controversial splash similar to (but with more sociological implications) his one-two punch with “Kill Bill: Vol. 1″ in 2003 and “Vol. 2″ a year later. Before that comeback, there was a six-year movieless stretch ...
Sam Raimi is best known as the man behind the “Spiderman” franchise, but he’s also widely regarded as a master of the macabre and of horror. After all, he broke through in 1981 with “The Evil Dead” after fixating on horror movies as a ...
“I think it’s hard to generalize,” says actor Denzel Washington about movie remakes. He and John Travolta — as the villain — costar in a remake of the 1974 “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3,” which starred Walter Matthau and was much noted ...
“People think of Westerns as being quintessentially American,” says New Zealand-born actor Russell Crowe. “But they’re quintessentially frontier stories. They’re integral to anywhere with a frontier. Like Australia. I think the Westerns I’ve done could just as easily have happened in Australia.” Crowe is ...
Ben Stiller is back in the museum. Specifically, in “Night at the Museum — Battle of the Smithsonian.” He points out that since the first “Night at the Museum,” he has received hundreds of letters. “So I’m told. . . . I can’t read ...
The new “Star Trek” movie, with its tagline “The Future Begins,” may indeed begin a new phase in the careers of two of its stars, Winona Ryder and Chris Pine. Pine is a fast-rising actor of 28 with solid stage and screen experience behind ...
‘Y ou know, just to get one of them is something most actors don’t get to do, and for a long time I didn’t think I’d ever get one, let alone two.” Sean Penn is talking about Academy Awards. His first was a Best ...
Until almost the end of 2008, British actor Bill Nighy was one of those faces you couldn’t put a name to. In his 50s, Nighy hails from the southern outskirts of London, where his father managed a garage in the bleak satellite town of ...
Until almost the end of 2008, British actor Bill Nighy was one of those faces you couldn’t put a name to. In his 50s, Nighy hails from the southern outskirts of London, where his father managed a garage in the bleak satellite town of ...
Although she was born in 1977 (in Atlanta, Georgia), Brittany Murphy is a show-business veteran who grew up fast. Murphy, an only child who was raised in New Jersey and California, started acting in regional theater at the age of 9, going into TV ...
