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 ...
When American automakers expressed their opposition against Japan joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations due to its closed market, the U.S. makers also pressed Tokyo to end special tax treatment for the country’s unique “kei” super-minivehicle segment. The outside pressure to end the low taxation ...
Freedom of the press in Japan fell last year to a ranking of only 22nd in the world, from 11th the year before, due to “excessive restrictions” on reporting the Fukushima nuclear crisis, according to the global nonprofit group Reporters Without Borders. In its ...
The Japanese Consumers’ Cooperative Union said Thursday it is monitoring how much radioactive material is contained in household meals to help ease consumer worries. The outcome of the testing will be announced in April, the JCCU said. The co-op said it started the study ...
After the March 11 tsunami slammed into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and wrecked three reactors, many people expected the nation’s cutting-edge robotic technologies to come to the rescue. That, however, turned out to be wishful thinking, and the public was left wondering ...
The Japanese auto industry hopes the government’s new incentives for green cars will increase overall sales by about 900,000 vehicles in 2012 at a time when exports aren’t likely to grow sharply amid the strong yen and overseas economic slowdown, the head of the ...
Every winter places set themselves aglow with illuminations as part of the festive mood for Christmas and New Year’s. Major shopping malls and amusement parks in particular go out of their way to put up dazzling arrays, and in recent years people have likewise ...
Toyota Motor Corp. and Germany’s BMW said Thursday they are teaming up in the field of hybrid vehicle technologies, aiming to speed up development and lower the costs of producing “green” vehicles amid a stricter regulatory environment. Under the agreement, the two carmakers will ...
Japanese carmakers highlighted their latest green technology concept cars during Wednesday’s media preview at the Tokyo Motor Show as they bid to lead the global trend toward energy efficiency and reignite interest among young people in automobiles. Previously held in Makuhari, Chiba Prefecture, it ...
The Tokyo Motor Show kicks off Saturday amid a variety of challenges facing the automobile industry, including intensifying global competition, the yen’s historic surge and supply disruptions caused by natural disasters. For Japanese automakers, emerging rivals in South Korea and other Asian countries have ...
Ahead of next month’s Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday unveiled two fuel-efficient concept cars, one an electric vehicle and the other a fuel-cell vehicle. The concept EV, called the FT-EVIII, has better range and speed characteristics than previous models. The auto ...
