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 ...
Although the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima No. 1 plant in Fukushima Prefecture, the younger Onagawa plant in neighboring in Miyagi was “remarkably undamaged” by the violent temblor and tsunami and safely shut down, experts from the International Atomic Energy ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Monday began allowing journalists to view 150 hours of teleconferencing footage between its headquarters and the Fukushima No. 1 plant, showing how executives interacted with workers in the first five days of the meltdown crisis that erupted on March ...
Organizers of the growing weekly antinuclear demonstrations outside the prime minister’s office asked a group of lawmakers Tuesday to help them arrange a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda so they can make a direct appeal to end Japan’s use of nuclear power. The ...
NTT DoCoMo Inc. on Friday posted a net profit of ¥164.2 billion for the April-June quarter, 3.5 percent better than the same period last year, and ¥1.07 trillion in sales, up 2.4 percent. Operating profit stood at ¥262.6 billion, down 1.9 percent, due to ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. should cut salaries by at least 30 percent instead of 20 percent for regular employees and 25 percent for management before trying to push an electricity rate hike on households, a Consumer Affairs Agency panel said Tuesday. In compiling its ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is desperately trying to raise prices to cover the drastic rise in thermal fuel costs caused by its triple-meltdown disaster at the poorly protected Fukushima No. 1 power plant. The utility, which is on the verge of nationalization, is effectively ...
Rakuten Inc. announced Monday that it will release an e-book reader and open a new e-book store this month, aiming to energize Japan’s publication and reading culture. Rakuten, the nation’s biggest Internet shopping mall operator, will sell an e-book reading device called kobo Touch ...
Top politicians in the prime minister’s office interfered too much in the early stages of the nuclear crisis, only deepening the chaos at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. claims in its final report on the disaster. The allegation is ...
The International Tokyo Toy Show kicked off Thursday with an unmistakable message that toy makers don’t want to miss out on the smartphone boom. With the number of people using smartphones growing rapidly, the companies plan to release more toys that involve the high-tech ...
The domestic toy market logged ¥692.1 billion in sales in fiscal 2011, up 3.4 percent from the previous year for the second straight annual rise despite the sluggish economy, the Japan Toy Association said Tuesday. “This shows steady demand for toys,” Takeo Takasu, chairman ...
