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 ...
For three consecutive nights, the Yomiuri Giants lived life on the edge. Shell-shocked by three straight losses in the Central League Climax Series final stage against a Chunichi Dragons squad that swept into Tokyo Dome, caught fire, and threatened to burn the joint down ...
It took the Yomiuri Giants a few days to get started in the Central League Climax Series final stage. Once the CL champions got going, there was no stopping them. Takayuki Terauchi drove in a pair of runs in the second inning, Shuichi Murata ...
Tokyo Dome was rocking and the Chunichi Dragons were reeling. All it would take was one final blow to finish putting the nail in the coffin. As he has so many times this year, Yoshihito Ishii turned out to be the man for the ...
Manager Tatsunori Hara put the season in Hirokazu Sawamura’s hands, and the rest of the Yomiuri Giants followed the young pitcher’s lead. Because they did, the Kyojin‘s Japan Series hopes are alive and well. Sawamura threw six innings of shutout ball, Shinnosuke Abe drove ...
Shinnosuke Abe rallied the troops before the Yomiuri Giants took the field for Game 4 of the Central League Climax Series final stage. After a year that saw them win the league title by 10 1/2 games, the Kyojin arrived at Tokyo Dome on ...
It’s beginning to look like the Chunichi Dragons just will not be denied. Pinch hitter Takahiro Donoue connected on a tiebreaking RBI single in the top of the 10th and closer Hitoki Iwase, with a helping hand from his defense, shut the door in ...
Junki Ito turned 21 years old in January. That’s three fewer years than his batterymate Motonobu Tanishige has been a professional baseball player. Still, the generation gap between them doesn’t seem as wide as the one that separated them from the Yomiuri Giants on ...
Second-year pitcher Yudai Ono was asked to go into a stadium in which he’d only won once, to face a team that’d beaten him up in his last two outings all while trying to help the Chunichi Dragons avoid a 2-0 deficit in the ...
Everyone understood this was the end of the line for Hiroyuki Nakajima. The Seibu Lions’ 3-2 loss in Game 3 of the Pacific League Climax Series first stage not only ended the team’s season, but also probably ended Nakajima’s Lions career. The All-Star shortstop ...
As Wily Mo Pena munched on a bowl of fruit on his way out of Seibu Dome, he tried to remember having a bigger hit than the one he had Monday against the Lions, a two-run double that accounted for the majority of his ...
