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 ...
Japan is often seen as the motherland of the photovoltaic industry. Back in 1993, the government started its New Sunshine Project, a massive subsid program that helped to equip 300,000 Japanese houses with solar panels over the following decade. During that time Japan became ...
You don’t have to read gossip columns to know that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have been seeing a lot of each other lately. But romance is far from the scene in their meetings. The two participated in the G8 ...
Look at any atlas, and it is plain to see that what is separating Germany from Japan is the world’s largest country, Russia. As a land mass, it is indeed a behemoth, spanning over 10,000 km and eleven time zones. But due to the ...
Although the word “arbeit,” meaning work, is commonly used in Germany and Japan, which adopted the word, recent debates on labor in these countries show that their attitudes toward work are markedly different. But the way in which each nation resolves its particular problems ...
On Sunday, Europe marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the historic agreement that established such bodies as the European Parliament and the Court of Justice. Primarily, the document signed on March 25, 1957, was an economic deal, melding ...
The EU Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council met in Brussels Feb. 15, and the chief item on the agenda was the “unbundling” of power networks. The idea is that in order to promote competitive practices in the power industry and reduce energy prices, energy ...
Last month Japan Tobacco, perhaps as a kind of Christmas present to itself, announced it was going to buy Gallaher Plc of the United Kingdom. The quoted figure for the deal was 2.25 trillion yen (14.5 billion euro), making it the largest-ever foreign takeover ...
Early in November, Toyota announced it was entering into a capital tieup with Isuzu Motors, a move that surprised many. Toyota, the industry giant, has a reputation for moving slowly in making such deals. Its agreements with Daihatsu and Hino were 30 years in ...
After booming in the United States and Europe, private equity finally seems to have set its sights on Japan. Two of the world’s top three private equity firms — Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group — have each opened offices in ...
Companies doing business in Europe are well aware of the European Union. But what some might yet not be so aware of is how important the EU institutions in Brussels and elsewhere can become for their business. What you don’t know can hurt you ...
