In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.
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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
For Kazuaki Nagata's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Microsoft Corp.’s first-ever tablet computer will hit the Japanese market in two weeks, the company said Friday, hoping to break the iPad’s domination. Five months after its debut in several other countries, Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet will reach store shelves here March 15, Microsoft ...
As Japanese companies continue to look overseas for opportunities to expand, an increasing number are trying to hire foreigners — or what they call “global human resources.” As part of this trend, it is growing more common for foreign students studying here to apply ...
Japanese TV makers are desperately seeking new strategies to revive their flagging operations, and some of the key points include expanding screen sizes, boosting image quality and making them “smarter” and more user-friendly. With midsize televisions barely turning a profit, the nation’s electronics giants ...
Toshiba Corp. on Friday unveiled a prototype of its remotely operated decontamination robot that it expects to help clean up the Fukushima No. 1 plant’s radiation-zapped reactor buildings as early as this summer. The robot — which can withstand radiation up to 100 sieverts, ...
Commercial whaling makes no economic sense given its money-losing operational structure and the declining consumption of whale meat, an animal rights group charged Tuesday in Tokyo. “Whaling is an economic loser in the 21st century,” Patrick Ramage, whale program director of the International Fund ...
The possibility of Kyushu being hit by a magnitude 6.8 or stronger temblor within 30 years is between 30 to 42 percent under newly revised criteria, a recent report by the government’s earthquake research panel shows. The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion under the ...
For non-Japanese speakers, services like Google Translate and NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s phones that provide automated translation by speaking into the devices may have made it easier to communicate while in Japan.
The NRA's draft report on the Tsuruga atomic power plant states that the fault under reactor 2 is probably active, effectively condemning the complex to the scrap heap.
On Thursday, KDDI Corp.'s au brand unveil the latest model of the Infobar smartphone series, which will hit the Japanese market after mid-February.
The bodies of nine of the 10 Japanese killed in the hostage crisis at an Algerian natural gas plant are flown back to Tokyo, along with seven survivors.
