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 ...
Smartphones are getting smarter. Maybe nearly as smart as a multilingual interpreter. This month, NTT DoCoMo Inc. began its second trial of a translation service that converts Japanese into 10 languages — English, Korean, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Thai and Indonesian — ...
Citizens attending the first public hearing Thursday on Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s request to increase electricity rates for households voiced opposition to the plan and urged the utility to cut costs instead. Masaaki Sakai, one of 10 members of the public given the opportunity ...
Unless competitive barriers such as the strong yen and high corporate tax are eased as soon as possible, the nation’s automakers may not be able to keep building cars in Japan, newly appointed Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Chairman Akio Toyoda said Monday. “It is ...
A Diet panel investigating the causes of the nuclear crisis recently interviewed key politicians who responded to the early stage of the emergency, bringing a long-unanswered question back into the spotlight: Did Tokyo Electric Power Co. really want to pull all of its workers ...
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan admitted Monday that the triple whammy that doomed the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in March 2011 — the megaquake, tsunami and the meltdowns they unleashed — was beyond the scope of the national crisis-management system. “The nuclear disaster ...
Trade minister Yukio Edano, the government’s top spokesman during the March 11 disasters, testified Sunday at the Diet that Tokyo Electric Power Co. considered withdrawing all its workers and abandoning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant amid the meltdown crisis. Tepco has claimed it ...
Monday’s rare annular eclipse wowed millions nationwide as they looked up in the morning sky to witness the astronomical event. Events were held at schools, along waterfronts, at zoos, parks and rooftops to witness the point when the moon passed in front of the ...
NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Wednesday it will expand smartphone services, including offering unlimited access to “anime” and music as well as a text translation service. The No. 1 carrier appears to be striving to reinforce its competitive edge and seeking new sources of revenue, ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it posted a ¥781.6 billion group net loss for fiscal 2011 after incurring massive costs from the meltdown disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, compensation for the victims and fuel costs for reverting to thermal power. ...
The auto and electronics industries have served as the economy’s main locomotives for decades, but now they are being eclipsed by heavier global competition, particularly from their aggressive Asian rivals. To offset the dip in dominance, the government is turning to Japan’s cultural exports, ...
