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 ...
Bessie Noll won’t celebrate her 16th birthday for another year, but she’s already got a sweet swing on her future. Noll hopes her experience as the starting center fielder for Musashi Fuchu’s little league baseball team in the competitive Tokyo League will give her ...
In Japanese there’s a word for it, that prolonged silence that cuts into a conversation, bringing discomfort and interrupting flow: shiin. We’ve all experienced that dead-air tension, but surprisingly there are different levels of comfort with silence, depending on the language being spoken. According ...
Venetia Stanley-Smith Kajiyama, or Venetia to her many fans, personifies natural, country living in her popular NHK program “Neko no Shippo, Kaeru no Te,” but her first two months in Tokyo exemplified neon lights and city swing as a go-go dancer at a Shinjuku ...
The Nicolai Bergmann brand radiates upscale elegance, taking flower fashion to a new level. In addition to his famous floral designs — he revolutionized Tokyo’s flower world in 2000 with his original Flower Boxes, a best-selling trend that landed his name in more than ...
Throughout the Western world, community theater spices the dramatic arts. Mentors passionate for the stage infuse young artists with their experience and knowledge; social and cultural concerns pepper the community with fresh viewpoints and raw perspectives; audiences swallow new ideas and old traditions as ...
Mark Schumacher’s home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, requires a journey, both on foot and for the spirit. Turn right after the grounds of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine and follow a gravel path toward a Hayao Miyazaki wonderland of bamboo and sutra-chanting cicadas. Veer right to ...
Japan abounds with foreigners attracted by its cultural opportunities, who live in the country and eventually make a livelihood by specializing in attributes the country has to offer. Scattered across the world, their counterparts reside in towns in Europe or America, those who, after ...
Miwa Mori, president of Key Architects, thinks a lot about nails, both as part of her profession and as her philosophy about life. “It is really tough to be a woman company president in Japan, but that is why I considered carefully the timing ...
When alone, Hedwig Koh’s eyes gaze perpetually into the past. Even as a child, she looked off into the distance: “I spent most of my childhood upstairs at the attic window, looking out at the view, imagining far away places.” Koh’s eyes find yours, ...
Miho Natori can recite nursery rhymes in Thai, speak German fluently, converse over coffee in English and is native in Japanese. For this 40-year-old graphic designer, life kaleidoscopes world to world, from Japan, to the orphanage she helped start with her mother in Chiang ...
