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 ...
For Kanoko Matsuyama's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Itoko Uchida, 82, was counting on the nephew she raised to support her in old age. He refused, forcing her to pay for a sponsor to join the 420,000-long line of Japanese waiting for a nursing home bed. With no relatives willing to help, ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Director Deborah Dunsire, the only female on a board of one of Japan’s 10 largest public companies, says the drugmaker is just getting started in promoting more women to senior levels. Dunsire, 50, isn’t satisfied women make up only 2 percent ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s Actos diabetes drug may be kept on the market with new warnings, the European Medicines Agency said after reviewing research showing the drug carried a slightly increased risk of bladder cancer. The benefits of pioglitazone, the active ingredient in Actos and ...
Researcher Yasuhiro Tsukamoto’s flock of 500 ostriches is being enlisted into the global fight against swine flu by exploiting Japan’s practice of wearing masks in public to ward off allergies and colds. Tsukamoto, 40, a veterinary professor at Kyoto Prefectural University, was part of ...
Hiroshi Ishikawa spent half of his career searching for a tuberculosis cure. Now, after a quarter century, he may have the drug industry’s most effective weapon to fight resistant strains of the deadly lung disease. In 1982, when tuberculosis was brought under control in ...
Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, is diverting drug studies and tests from Japan as part of an industry push to avoid this nation’s regulatory delays and higher costs. The New York-based maker of Lipitor, the No. 1 cholesterol medicine in the world, is ...
