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 ready to hold talks with other nations, including the U.S. and China, on how to answer the International Monetary Fund’s call for more resources to handle Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said Wednesday. In an interview with The Japan ...
Japan and its missile defense system remained on high alert Thursday as the first day of North Korea’s launch window for what is believed to be a long-range ballistic missile test passed without incident. North Korea said it will launch the rocket by sometime ...
The Bank of Japan Policy Board unanimously agreed Tuesday to maintain the current virtually zero interest rate policy while revealing details of a new lending arrangement in dollars worth the equivalent of ¥1 trillion. As a result, following the Policy Board’s two-day meeting, the ...
With Aegis destroyers and Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles deployed and standing by, Japan’s military appears ready to shoot down any debris from North Korea’s rocket — or even the rocket itself — should it threaten the country this week. But some experts say that ...
The strong storm Tuesday that left four people dead and disrupted transportation systems nationwide was triggered by a case of rare weather conditions occurring simultaneously. “This was a condition which is referred to as a ‘May Storm,’ ” Maki Wakahara, a spokeswoman for the ...
The pessimism reigning among large manufacturers remained firmly entrenched in the Bank of Japan’s quarterly “tankan” survey Monday, underscoring persistent concerns about the yen’s appreciation and Europe’s sovereign credit risk. The business index for major manufacturers — companies capitalized at ¥1 billion or more ...
The Cabinet on Friday made good on its vow and moved forward on doubling the consumption tax by 2015, but some experts and lawmakers already see it as only a tiny step in cutting the ever-expanding fiscal deficit. “It is obvious that further tax ...
The Tohoku region continues to struggle beyond the first anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, particularly Fukushima Prefecture, whose recovery is being greatly hampered by the triple-meltdown crisis at a coastal nuclear plant. But before the severity of the Fukushima ...
In terms of soil contamination, the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is only about an eighth as severe as the meltdown at the Chernobyl plant, in what is now Ukraine, in 1986, according to a report by the science ministry ...
Footage of the Tohoku region’s tsunami-ravaged coast has been broadcast constantly over the past year, allowing viewers a closeup view of obliterated communities. But Eiji Sakai, a resident of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, has had a unique bird’s-eye view of the devastation, by paragliding along ...
