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 ...
The domestic auto industry has thrown its support behind the government’s decision to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in the hope that a free-trade deal will help them counter the impact of the stubbornly strong yen. “JAMA welcomes the announcement by the government,” Toshiyuki ...
The Japanese unit of Chinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co., backed by its competitive edge in Japan’s highly potential solar panel market, is looking to more than double its sales next year after suffering unexpected supply disruptions this year. The world’s largest ...
Outfitted with twin joystick controls instead of a steering wheel, Honda Motor Co. on Thursday unveiled two new concept cars — a hybrid sports car and a compact electric vehicle — ahead of the Dec. 2-11 Tokyo Motor Show. The concept cars’ steering controls ...
Nissan Motor Co. on Tuesday unveiled its latest concept electric car, the PIVO3, ahead of its display at the Tokyo Motor Show next month. The automaker said the vehicle best suits commuters who drive on crowded roads in big cities. The 2.8-meter-long compact car ...
The number of foreign automakers that will attend next month’s Tokyo Motor Show will rise back to 20 from only nine in the previous show in 2009, when the global economic slump was in full swing, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Friday. To ...
After two recent reports of radioactive substances being detected in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, the science ministry Wednesday acknowledged that it receives a number of similar reports of unapproved radioactive materials each year. After the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ...
With Thailand’s worst floods in 50 years surrounding the center of Bangkok, economists are warning that the protracted crisis may hurt Japan’s economy, which had just started to show signs of recovering from the March 11 disasters. As alarm over the flooding grew Thursday, ...
Online “Net super” retailing has grown increasingly popular as more people shop from home, especially seniors. Despite the economy’s prolonged doldrums and the dim outlook for conventional stores, the online supermarket business is a rare bright spot in retailing, experts said. Following are questions ...
Thailand’s worst flooding in 50 years is dealing a dramatic blow to Japanese automobile, precision instrument and other industries because the nation is now an important global production base for numerous manufacturers. Some makers, whose main production plants are located in Ayutthaya Province, can’t ...
Mag-Isover K.K., the Japanese unit of French building-material conglomerate Saint-Gobain, is ready to meet growing demand for insulation in the disaster-hit Tohoku region and elsewhere and expects the nation’s energy-saving efforts to continue for years to come. “Sustainable development (of the market) is not ...
