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 ...
Shintaro Ishihara officially stepped down Wednesday as governor of Tokyo after the metropolitan assembly accepted his letter of resignation and ended his 13½ years in the office. Vice Gov. Naoki Inose will take over as acting governor starting Thursday. The campaign to find Ishihara’s ...
The Windows 8 operating system debuted worldwide Friday, with Microsoft Corp. looking to gain a competitive edge in the market for mobile devices by focusing on smartphones and tablets. As Apple Inc. and Google Inc. continue to increase their presence in multiple markets, Microsoft ...
With the spread of smartphones and high-speed communication networks, so-called Internet-tethering services are now a possibility in Japan. But what is actually involved in such services can be confusing — such as what phones are tethering-ready, how much the service costs and if there ...
KDDI Corp. President Takashi Tanaka revealed Wednesday that his firm in the past year had discussed acquiring Sprint Nextel Corp. but in the end opted not to buy the U.S. carrier. “I think pursuing the size is one value, but that’s Softbank’s style, and ...
If Softbank Corp. manages to acquire Sprint Nextel Corp., the deal would dramatically increase the mobile carrier’s influence in both the domestic and overseas markets and severely rattle its major rivals, experts said Friday. Softbank’s move could also potentially assist domestic handset makers looking ...
At a meeting in Tokyo of finance ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized nations, Japan detailed its ongoing efforts to defuse the nation’s looming fiscal crisis and raised concerns about the yen, which it considers stubbornly overvalued, Finance Minister Koriki Jojima told reporters ...
Dismissing them as based on speculation, Softbank Corp. declined comment on media reports Thursday that the firm is considering buying a majority stake in Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S.-based telecom carrier. “(Those reports) are not based on an announcement from our company. We ...
Since arriving in Japan in 2008, Apple Inc.’s iPhone series has won the love of many Japanese cellphone users long accustomed to phones heavily customized for the domestic market. The iPhone shock could have even more repercussions, as the September debut of the iPhone ...
NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced Thursday a new partnership with MasterCard Worldwide that will enable its smartphone users to make contactless electronic payments in other countries starting sometime after next April. With the contactless payment system, a smartphone or other device with an embedded IC ...
Nine delegates from three countries at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank checked out cutting-edge developments by one of Japan’s electronics giants Wednesday, including energy-saving and environmentally friendly technologies. Four delegates each from the Solomon Islands and Nicaragua as ...
