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 ...
A citizens’ group pushing for a referendum in Tokyo on scrapping Tepco’s nuclear reactors has to persuade metropolitan assembly members to back its plan — a daunting, and potentially insurmountable, step. “It depends on how each metropolitan assembly member views the issue. After (Tokyo ...
Japan has 98 airports, and most of them are operating in the red as a result of exaggerated demand forecasts and rampant, costly and arguably pork-barrel construction projects. The transport ministry hopes to mitigate the problem by selling off the management rights to 27 ...
The country experienced severe cold weather Friday and morning temperatures dropped to record lows at 38 locations nationwide, the Meteorological Agency said. From Tohoku to Kyushu, 16 prefectures recorded their lowest temperatures ever, including the town of Kusu in Oita Prefecture, where the mercury ...
The massive radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has sparked fear in seafood lovers and commercial fishermen both at home and abroad, and some worry the contamination could pass through and even become more concentrated in the ocean food chain. But ...
New education minister Hirofumi Hirano said he supports the University of Tokyo’s recent proposal to shift the start of its academic year from April to autumn, a move that would put the school in line with international norms. The fall enrollment proposal by a ...
The president of the University of Tokyo said Friday that he wants to form consultative bodies with other universities and companies to achieve a smooth transition to an autumn start of the academic year within five years. The move by the nation’s top academic ...
Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba has begun providing simultaneous interpretation in English at his weekly press conferences to provide more information to the international community about Japan’s diplomatic activities. At his first bilingual press conference Wednesday, receivers and earphones were handed out and an interpreter ...
Japan Airlines Corp. will appoint Senior Managing Executive Officer Yoshiharu Ueki as its new president following a shareholders’ meeting in February, a move intended to strengthen its new management team ahead of its relisting later this year. Current President Masaru Onishi will become JAL ...
Hundreds of foreign students from Japan’s top universities turned up at a career forum Saturday in Tokyo, hoping to secure a job before their graduation in 2013. Clad in dark suits, the students flocked to Tokyo Dome City in Bunkyo Ward to attend briefings ...
A total of 150 non-Japanese took part Friday in an annual emergency drill for foreign residents in Tokyo looking to learn or reaffirm how to deal with a disaster like the one that hit March 11. With the help of 80 volunteer translators covering ...
