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 ...
Australia will set up an antigang task force based on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s model to combat “the gangs and guns on our streets,” Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sunday. Gillard said the task force, expected to cost 64 million Australian dollars ...
Automatic austerity measures that took effect in the U.S. at midnight Friday are likely to further delay Washington’s plans to move thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam, and to force changes to American military programs elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region. The spending cuts ...
Two years after the quake-tsunami disaster, prefectural and major municipal governments across the country are continuing to support affected communities in Tohoku with personnel on a large scale, a survey has found. At the end of January, 944 officials from 42 prefectures and 19 ...
Most people who have done time in jail can’t wait to get out. But New York City authorities have accused one former inmate of sneaking back in. Yonkers resident Matthew Matagrano, 36, was arraigned in Manhattan on Saturday on charges that he impersonated a ...
A judge cut $450 million from a $1 billion award to be paid by Samsung in a landmark patent lawsuit from Apple, saying a jury had wrongly calculated the damages. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Friday affirmed the remainder of the award, amounting ...
U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he understands China has raised tensions over the Senkaku Islands during their summit talks in Washington last month, sources close to the bilateral relationship said. In the inaugural meeting of the two leaders Feb. ...
Iran and Syria condemned a U.S. plan to assist rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad on Saturday and signaled the Syrian leader intends to stay in power at least until 2014 presidential elections. The remarks came against the backdrop of a strategic victory ...
Violent ethnic riots have rattled Macedonia’s capital, culminating on Saturday with hundreds raging through the city center, clashing with police, overturning cars and attacking a bus station. At least 22 people were injured, 13 of them police officers. Ethnic Macedonians kicked off the protests ...
Jenn Suhr set a women’s pole vault indoor record by clearing 5.02 meters Saturday at the USA Track & Field Indoor National Championships. Suhr cleared the bar with plenty to spare on her first attempt. Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia set the previous record last ...
Voters went to the polls Sunday to choose Bangkok’s new governor in a local election overshadowed by political divisiveness that has wracked Thailand for much of the past eight years. The major rivals were Democrat Party candidate and former Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra and ...
