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 ...
Speaking on the field with a chilly breeze blowing in early December, Obic Seagulls defensive end Byron Beatty Jr. joked that it was actually like “a nice day in Colorado.” Well, until some six years ago, he had no idea what the frozen tundra ...
Obic quarterback Shun Sugawara completed 10 of his 14 passes for 143 yards and two touchdowns behind a steady defense as the Seagulls seized a spot in the Japan X Bowl for the third straight year with a 24-10 win over the Nojima Sagamihara ...
At age 46, Masamitsu Den is still addicted to the game of football. And he still puts on pads and a helmet on the gridiron, instead of wearing a headset and a sun visor off of it. “It’s not impossible to play, with proper ...
Having gone through some difficult times, Toshiaki Nishioka’s boxing career wasn’t exactly what he originally thought it would be when he entered the ring at age 11. But he now can say that it was more fulfilling than he expected. Nishioka, who lost to ...
Stretching on the field hours before Thursday’s Game 5 of the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham outfielder Daikan Yoh smilingly said that he hoped to go to South Korea. That meant that he wanted to advance to the Asia Series in Busan by winning ...
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters youngster Kenshi Sugiya and his father, Mitsuru, are a unique father-son tandem. Both of them have been professional athletes. Mitsuru Sugiya was a Japan featherweight champion boxer, who also fought in a WBC world title match, in the mid-1980s. But ...
You could call it a coincidence, but going into Game 3 of the Japan Series on Tuesday there was a chance something uncanny could happen in baseball on both sides of the Pacific. Both the Giants of the United States and Japan had the ...
On Sunday night, Masaru Takeda was the last man standing for the Fighters in their 1-0 loss to the Yomiuri Giants. The southpaw had a magnificent performance in a hostile atmosphere at Tokyo Dome. Unfortunately, he got an “L” instead of a “W.” However, ...
Despite a lopsided 8-1 loss to the Yomiuri Giants in Game 1 of the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Hideki Kuriyama came out in front of the media throng in a cheerful mode before Sunday’s Game 2 at Tokyo Dome. And the ...
Perhaps Shuichi Murata is the one who’s psyched up the most on the 21-time NPB champion Yomiuri Giants in the Japan Series. The 31-year-old slugger joined the club via free agency before this season after playing for nine years with the always-struggling Yokohama BayStars. ...
