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 ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it expects group operating and net profit for the current business year to drop more than 30 percent from the previous year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged key parts makers in northeast Japan. For the year ...
In the three months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, the nation’s three reactor makers have started to focus more on renewable energy sources, particularly solar, wind and geothermal power. Toshiba Corp., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. ...
Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s weakened political clout has further deepened widespread concern over the country’s apparent inability to contain its swelling national debt and deliver urgently needed funding to the disaster-hit areas, economists said Thursday. Earlier in the day, a no-confidence motion against Kan ...
Since the devastating earthquake and tsunami destroyed or swept away thousands of homes on March 11, earthquake insurance has become a hot topic. Here are some questions and answers on the issue. What kind of damage does earthquake insurance cover? It covers housing and ...
Japan’s trade balance fell into the red in April with a deficit of ¥463.7 billion, a big shift from the ¥189.4 billion surplus the month before, as the March 11 earthquake and tsunami wreaked havoc on exporters’ production plants in the northeast, the Finance ...
Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday its current business plan for nuclear power plant construction is likely to be delayed by a few years due to growing global caution against nuclear power plants. Toshiba, a maker of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, had ...
Automakers and auto parts makers formally agreed Thursday to operate their plants on Saturdays and Sundays and close shop on Thursdays and Fridays to help ward off the threat of blackouts during the summer, when demand for electricity is expected to peak from July ...
Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday its group operating profit jumped 72.5 percent to ¥537.47 billion for the business year ended in March, mostly on the back of strong sales in China and other emerging markets. However, the company said losses stemming from the March ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it expects that its damaged domestic production lines will rebound to 70 percent of capacity by June, a month earlier than initially scheduled, thanks to efforts made after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami slowed some of its plants ...
What happens when the power goes out during a sizzling summer without warning? Expectations of power shortages during peak demand this summer have raised fears of sudden blackouts, causing people and businesses to consider purchasing industrial storage batteries to keep their home and office ...
