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 ...
Vincent Marx, 47, from the U.S. state of Washington, and his wife Emiko, a Tokyo native, first met at a juvenile detention center in Seattle in 1992. Emiko, now 42, was then a senior at the University of Washington who had transferred from Keio ...
Gustav Strandell believes that if there is something good about his home country, Sweden, that he can bring to Japan, it’s the concept and some of the technical skills of its social welfare system developed over its 100-year-plus history as an aging society. Born ...
Tetsuyoshi Kodama, a second-generation Japanese-Brazilian, became the first foreign national to pass the taxi driver test in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1991. After driving around the city of Hamamatsu for about four years, he took on other jobs, including at a temporary employment agency and ...
At first glance, it may be hard to imagine that the children singing and jumping around at a gymnasium at Tokyo International School in Minato Ward have been separated from their parents and live in children’s homes. About 60 children — aged between 6 ...
If you’re a Japanese student interested in studying at a foreign university, it might be best to start preparing early. On July 26 and 27, the U.S., Australian and Canadian embassies in Tokyo -together with the British Council and L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo (Tokyo ...
One does not have to travel to another country to get to know its people and culture. Summer festivals being organized by embassies of several nations and other groups in Tokyo in the coming weeks can offer that taste of life abroad. For years, ...
Lena Lindahl has for the past two decades produced environment-related events in Japan in an effort to apply her home country Sweden’s notion of sustainable society here. And she believes the key is education to encourage children to develop and express opinions about issues ...
Kim and Junko Knudsen’s house is full of American primitive country decor they brought back from their honeymoon in the U.S. South. The couple love country music, too, and plan to live in the United States or Canada in the near future. Kim, 41, ...
Among the numerous nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations that delivered basic necessities like food and clothes to tsunami-devastated areas in the Tohoku region, the NPO Bikes for Japan did its part by delivering refurbished bicycles to survivors living in shelters. Bicycle repairman Daiki Mochizuki from ...
Freelance travel writer Beth Reiber knows Tokyo inside out — maybe much more than most Tokyoites. Reiber, who lives in Lawrence, Kansas, wrote the Tokyo version of the Frommer’s guidebooks — one of the best-selling series of guide books published in the United States ...
