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 ...
The Fighters simply preserved their momentum from the previous days, and the reigning Japan Series champion Hawks had no clue how to bounce back. The Nippon Ham offense came through early behind starter Brian Wolfe’s solid performance as the Fighters defeated the Fukuoka Softbank ...
Once a Yomiuri Giants star shortstop, Tomohiro Nioka’s game is limited to minimum duties now. Due to chronicle leg injuries over the last few years, he has not been able to field or even base-run when he gets on base. And the situation doesn’t ...
For the second night in a row, Yoshio Itoi bashed the ball beyond the fences. And with it, the Fighters are one win away from reaching their first Japan Series in three years. With Hokkaido Nippon Ham leading 1-0, Itoi launched an insurance two-run ...
With teams playing cautiously, postseason ball often tends to be an endurance contest. On Wednesday night, it appeared that the Hawks would prevail at one point, but their opponents just refused to give in. Yoshio Itoi launched a game-tying two-run homer and pinch hitter ...
Without a captain, a boat can’t depart from port. Samurai Japan finally has one. As had been reported, former Hiroshima Carp great Koji Yamamoto was officially named manager of the Japanese national team for the 2013 World Baseball Classic on Wednesday. “I received a ...
Antonio Lang said he had a chance to become an assistant coach for his mentor Mike Krzyzewski at his alma mater Duke University, but chose instead to stay in Japan to be an assistant for the Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins. It probably sounds crazy. Lang ...
Even though he fell short of reaching the NFL, former UCLA quarterback Kevin Craft doesn’t curse his past, but rather, embraces it. For him, football is football, whether it’s played at the Rose Bowl, or in France, or even in Japan. Craft, who played ...
With its 2012-13 campaign getting under way this weekend, the Japan Basketball League, which will be rebranded as the National Basketball League next fall, promises to entertain the fans as much as possible in its final season under the old name. The new season ...
In the game of basketball, making a big shot in crunch time is as important as total points and rebounds on the stats sheet that’s distributed after a game. Point guard Aren Davoudichegani ended up with just five points but drilled a huge shot ...
Entering the FIBA Asia Cup, Team Japan set a goal of advancing to the semifinals. Well, the last four is good, but at the same time it sounds like a compromising goal. Why not the final two? Despite struggling early on, the Japan men’s ...
