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 ...
With Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s rate increase for businesses looming from Sunday, politicians were trying to somehow stop the move or at least make sure the utility won’t resort to drastic actions against those customers unwilling to go along with the hike, such as ...
Businesses are displeased to say the least with Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s rate hike taking effect April 1, as it will put an extra burden on their operating costs, especially in those industries that use a large amount of power. They also say Tepco ...
Sharp Corp. said Monday it plans to strengthen its multifunction-printer business in China by opening a new plant and boosting output of color versions mainly for office use to meet growing demand. The move will give the company two plants at its complex in ...
Denim-clad models strutted along Tokyo’s glitzy Ginza district Saturday as its main street was turned into a catwalk to showcase Japan’s fashion industry. The Ginza Runway event was jointly organized by the trade ministry and private-sector entities around the theme of Japanese denim, and ...
The Nuclear Safety Commission approved on Friday the results of the first-stage stress test for two reactors at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture, clearing another key condition for bringing them back online. The brief approval meeting sparked outrage among the nuclear foes ...
Increased transparency, better information disclosure and clear explanations of technical matters were key to regaining the public’s trust after the Chernobyl disaster, a nuclear expert from Ukraine involved in the response to the 1986 meltdown said Monday in Tokyo. Volodymyr Holosha, who is in ...
Fast Retailing Co. launched its biggest Uniqlo flagship store yet Friday, aiming for it to rake in ¥10 billion a year in sales and reinforce the company’s global competitiveness. The massive store stands in Tokyo’s Ginza district — “the best place in Japan, possibly ...
The launch of preparatory drilling for methane hydrate off Aichi Prefecture last month drew public attention amid hopes it will become an alternative to nuclear power at a time when Japan’s self-sufficiency rate in energy is a meager 4 percent. While the potential of ...
Hitachi Ltd. will start selling a color-coded radiation measuring device at the end of this month. The device can incorporate results of gamma radiation measuring within 10 meters into a picture taken by a built-in camera. The image can be checked connecting the device ...
On the first anniversary of the start of the nuclear crisis, Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa once again offered an apology and vowed every effort to keep the Fukushima No. 1 plant stable and “appropriately” compensate those affected by the accident. “Because ...
