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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Friday’s enactment of a new special law that will let the Maritime Self-Defense Force resume multilateral refueling operations in the Indian Ocean will also allow Japan to save face and avoid jeopardizing its relations with the U.S., analysts said. “I think the White House ...
TOYAKO, Hokkaido — Lined with traditional merchant homes, wholesalers and other historical buildings dating to the 17th century, Inishie (Antiquity) Street stretches 1.1 km from north to south in the Japan Sea coastal town of Esashi in Hiyama, southwestern Hokkaido. When Toshinori Kameya, director ...
JINAN, China — Shinzo Abe’s trip to China as prime minister in October 2006 was dubbed “the ice-breaking trip” to mend diplomatic relations damaged by predecessor Junichiro Koizumi. Then came Premier Wen Jiabao‘s “thawing-ice visit” to Japan last April. Now relations have reached what ...
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda hinted Saturday that he may reshuffle the Cabinet in mid-January in an effort to shore up his administration’s falling approval ratings. Speaking to reporters traveling with him in Jinan, Shandong Province, Fukuda also ruled out the possibility of dissolving the ...
to take unilateral action to change the status quo” in cross-strait relations. Fukuda’s visit follows the “ice-breaking trip” to China by his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, in October 2006 and Wen’s “ice-thawing visit” to Japan in April. Describing the two nations’ relations, Fukuda said “spring ...
governed by the rule of law,” she said in a recent interview. Saiga, a career diplomat, has served as ambassador in charge of human rights and a member of the U.N. Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. “The significance of the creation ...
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, Afghanistan has been the battleground for the global war on terrorism. So when Afghan Ambassador to Japan Haron Amin learned Japan was withdrawing its Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels from the Indian Ocean on Nov. 1 ...
Japan indicated its intention to ease import curbs on American beef during a two-day bilateral economic dialogue in Tokyo, a senior U.S. official said Friday. Japan currently only allows imported U.S. beef from cattle aged 20 months or younger, due to concerns over mad ...
Claiming benefits for both sides, a visiting senior U.S. official urged Japan on Thursday to liberalize its agricultural market and launch talks on a free-trade agreement with the United States. Speaking in Tokyo, Daniel Price, U.S. assistant to the president for international economic affairs, ...
Japan is notorious for accepting very few refugees, despite making a significant financial contribution to the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. But the visiting head of the U.N. organization said Tuesday that Japan is making steady progress in improving the situation ...
On Sept. 30, 2006, Japan retired the last of its only domestically produced airliner, the YS-11. About 1,000 people turned out at Tokushima airport to bid adieu to the twin turboprop on its last scheduled flight. Only 182 YS-11s were built before production terminated ...
With Tuesday’s passage of a new special antiterrorism bill by the Lower House, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda can breathe a sigh of relief before he meets Friday with U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington in their first bilateral summit. But with the two ...