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 ...
A year-old penguin that got away from a Tokyo aquarium remains at large and was last seen swimming in a river near the facility. The 60 to 70 cm Humboldt penguin was one of 135 at Tokyo Sea Life Park along the shore of ...
Kazuhiro Tsuga, the newly appointed president of Panasonic Corp., said Wednesday the electronics giant will pursue growth on multiple business fronts in a rational way to survive harsh global competition. The day after Panasonic announced that the 55-year-old will replace current President Fumio Otsubo, ...
While the meltdown crisis in Fukushima has raised awareness around the world of the dangers of nuclear power, Lithuania, with its limited natural resources, appears to have little choice but to rely on atomic energy to reduce its heavy reliance on natural gas from ...
A dead shark found in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park has sparked an investigation into who brought it there, an officer at Yoyogi Police Station said Monday. A park security guard called the police at 7 a.m. Sunday after finding the shark, which was covered by ...
Tokyo Skytree, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, is already a Sumida Ward landmark and will become even more so when it opens in May. The tower is a key installation for digital terrestrial broadcasting and is expected to draw hordes of visitors to its ...
Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday its group operating profit for April to December fell 4.7 percent to ¥427.8 billion, with the strong yen eating into overseas earnings. It also reported a ¥266.1 billion group net profit for the nine months, down 7.7 percent from ...
Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday raised its expectations for the business year to March, saying it now forecasts group operating profit of ¥270 billion on the back of rebounding sales in the United States and Europe as well as its cost-cutting efforts. The auto ...
Major domestic electronics makers have had a rough year, with many this week projecting massive group net losses for the year to March because of the strong yen, natural disasters at home and abroad, and the sputtering global economy. Industry observers said Friday that ...
Boasting dozens of restaurants and shops and the highest household consumption rate of “gyoza,” Utsunomiya, the capital of Tochigi Prefecture, has long been regarded as the capital of the Chinese dumpling as well. But no longer. For the first time in 16 years, the ...
New robots for gathering data inside the radiation-contaminated Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are ready to go into action, the Chiba Institute of Technology said Monday, three months after an older version got stuck inside the No. 2 reactor building. Equipped with cameras, ...
