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 ...
Tokyo is about to get its first new governor in almost 14 years, and whoever wins the Dec. 16 election will have to fill the shoes of Shintaro Ishihara, who leaves behind a legacy both positive and negative. The 80-year-old Ishihara, who now heads ...
The campaign for the Dec. 16 gubernatorial election kicks off Thursday in Tokyo, with the focus on whether candidates will carry on the policies of former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara. As of Tuesday, eight had announced their candidacies, including Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose, ...
When Shintaro Ishihara abruptly resigned as governor of Tokyo at the end of last month to form Taiyo no To (The Sunrise Party), it was unclear what his political aims were. Some speculate the 80-year-old wants to trigger a political realignment and become a ...
Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara launched his new political party Tuesday along with five lawmakers, vowing to create a “stronger and tougher Japan” by tying up with other small parties before the next Lower House election. Ishihara’s new party, Taiyo no To (The Sunrise ...
The Senkaku territorial row may be hurting the economies of Japan and China, but at least one company is making money out of it. At the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, wholesaler Tohto Suisan Co. has since July tagged three bigeye tuna caught near ...
Kenji Utsunomiya, former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, announced Friday he will run for Tokyo governor, vowing to lead a movement from the capital to abolish nuclear power. Utsunomiya, who has devoted his career to fighting poverty, also pledged to beef ...
A health ministry panel has concluded there is no need to stop administering the vaccination for Japanese encephalitis despite the deaths this year of two children who received the drug. The panel reached its conclusion Wednesday after studying the circumstances of the two deaths. ...
Some 39.5 percent of Japan Airlines Corp.’s shares were held by non-Japanese as of Wednesday, exceeding the legal ceiling, according to data released by a securities industry group. Under the Civil Aeronautics Law, the ratio of non-Japanese voting rights in Japanese airlines must be ...
It’s been 18 months since the Fukushima nuclear disaster contaminated much of the prefecture and beyond, and reports are still coming in about radiation in food exceeding the government limit. In late August, Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced that heavily contaminated “ainame” (greenlings) had ...
Japan Airlines Co. relisted its shares Wednesday on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, opening a new chapter as a publicly traded company two years and seven months after its bankruptcy led to the delisting of the former state-owned carrier. JAL stock ...
