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 ...
President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans refused Saturday to concede any share of the blame for failing to stave off automatic spending cuts that will slash $85 billion in federal spending. The still-fragile U.S. economy braced itself for the gradual but potentially grave impact ...
The lack of any hint of the atrocities carried out at the Lubyanka building, particularly at the height of Josef Stalin's purges, symbolizes the ambivalent way in which Russia remembers the tyrant.
An 18-year-old youth is arrested over the robbery-murder of a woman in Tokyo’s Kichijoji district after turning himself in to police and confessing to the slaying.
China appears reluctant to accept Japan's offer of technical assistance to help its neighbor cope with a deepening air pollution problem.
Spending cuts will start hitting an array of U.S. government programs following the failure of President Barack Obama and Republicans to avert an $85 billion budget reduction.
Researchers at Hokkaido University and Juntendo University develop a new therapy to suppress the rejection of liver transplants without the use of immunosuppressive drugs.
Japan and the European Union are preparing to hold summit talks in Tokyo in late March, to declare the launch of formal negotiations on a free-trade accord.
A bullet train derails on the Akita Shinkansen Line, halting all services on part of the route but avoiding injury to the 130 passengers onboard.
The annualized radiation exposure of workers at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex since last March was four times higher than before the triple meltdowns occurred, Tepco says.
Former Vice Finance Minister Eijiro Katsu will be appointed president of major IT firm Internet Initiative Japan Inc., industry sources revealed Saturday. After retiring from the Finance Ministry last August, the 62-year-old Katsu, best known for working with the previous Democratic Party of Japan-led ...
