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 Chiba Jets, coming off a mediocre 18-34 inaugural season, are jumping ship to the JBL’s re-branded top league for the 2013-14 campaign. According to news reports, the Jets will be joined by the eight current JBL squads, a pair of JBL2 teams (Hyogo ...
As a goalkeeper for the national team, Eiji Kawashima doesn’t want to make a single error during a game. But off the pitch, he doesn’t think that making mistakes is as costly, like in learning a foreign language. In fact, he believes failure is ...
Just think about it. A 3-2 count, two outs in the ninth inning, and with a perfect game on the line — what would you do on your next pitch? Perhaps you would throw it in the strike zone. Maybe right down the middle ...
All Toshiya Sugiuchi needed was a “W” for his team, and as usual, he got it. Except this time he did it in spectacular fashion. The Yomiuri Giants southpaw tossed a no-hitter in a 2-0 victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles at Tokyo ...
Atsunori Inaba eloquently stated that he doesn’t play baseball to come up with 2,000 hits. He plays the game to win for his team. So instead of regretting coming up with just one hit on the night, the team-first veteran was pleased that one ...
When you’ve been in the game a long time, you learn a thing or two. Longtime Mariners head athletic trainer Rick Griffin shared his thoughts on Japanese players in the Major League Baseball and their physical traits before Thursday’s game between Seattle and the ...
In the final week of March, they’re usually playing the preseason games. So why give 100 percent at this time of a year? On the other hand, Shigetoshi Hasegawa said that may not be the case as far as the Mariners are concerned. “Veteran ...
Working for a big, stable company while playing as a top football player in Japan, Kenzo Waku could have had a nice, easy life if he had stayed where he was. But that existence wasn’t for him. Instead, Waku chose to pursue his dream, ...
When she was 7 years old, Chelsea Baker switched from playing softball to baseball because her older brother, Gary, was playing the latter. The reason? “So my parents could watch us play at the same time,” Baker revealed in Tokyo last week. “I started ...
Tokyo Marathon runnerup Arata Fujiwara and Osaka Women’s Marathon champion Risa Shigetomo topped the bill as the Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced the national marathon squad for this summer’s London Olympics on Monday. Ryo Yamamoto and Kentaro Nakamoto joined Fujiwara on the men’s ...
