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 ...
Japan Airlines Co. will return to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s first section Wednesday, two years and eight months after filing for bankruptcy in one of the country’s biggest corporate failures. Starting with a market value of ¥687.3 billion, JAL’s relisting will be the world’s ...
Japan Airlines Co. said Thursday it will upgrade the seats in its Boeing 777-300ER jets starting next year in a bid to beef up its international competitiveness. The new seats are scheduled to be installed from January on jetliners flying between Narita International Airport ...
The Children’s International Festa 2012 in Tokyo gave kids hands-on experience with other cultures Saturday, from making beeswax candles New Zealand-style to learning Mayan numbers. The annual event, the fourth of its kind, was organized by Somos & Co. to provide children with an ...
A record-high 25,800 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium has been detected in fish caught within 20 km of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co., indicating there may be hot spots under the sea that need further investigation. ...
Second of two parts Read part 1 Yuki Ujiie’s first year of junior high school was agony: He was beaten by bullies, ignored by his classmates and forced to eat alone when everyone else lunched in groups. Though Ujiie put up with the situation ...
Fifteen years after her only child, Kasumi, killed herself at age 15, Midori Komori still hasn’t received any apologies from the people who bullied her daughter and the high school she attended said no such abuse occurred. When a child commits suicide as a ...
As concerns mount over the growing use of quasi-legal herbs as narcotics, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has started monitoring Internet sales of the herbal mixture — but to limited effect as vendors take great pains to stay within the law. The health ...
Amid growing public criticism of the way schools and boards of education handle, or allegedly ignore, cases of bullying, more children and parents are turning to the police, filing criminal complaints or asking for reinvestigations of previously reported instances of physical abuse. On Monday, ...
The use of “dappo habu” (quasi-legal herbs) that are dried and mixed with stimulants to make narcotics is spreading, and many people are ending up in hospitals for drug poisoning. Some people under the influence of the herbs, which are often smoked, have even ...
Two death-row inmates were hanged Friday, in Tokyo and Osaka, in the second round of executions this year after three men went to the gallows in March. Friday’s hangings were the first ordered by Justice Minister Makoto Taki, who assumed the post June 4. ...
