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 ...
HIROSHIMA/WASHINGTON — As U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos on Friday became the first U.S. representative to attend the annual ceremony to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the move was fraught with both political gains and risks for U.S. President Barack Obama. Obama ...
Financial chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and major developing economies were to gather Friday and Saturday in South Korea to discuss measures to ease tensions in global financial markets caused by the debt crisis in the euro zone. Preventing a recurrence of ...
The Bank of Japan’s decision Monday for a dollar-swap accord with the U.S. Federal Reserve was welcomed by analysts, who said pumping liquidity into the banking system and helping businesses raise necessary funds are crucial to keeping Japan’s economic recovery on track. The BOJ ...
Japan and the European Union have had difficulty launching a joint study on a free-trade deal, with analysts pointing out that Japan’s market appears less promising than other Asian economies. However, the two sides are still thought to have many common interests in promoting ...
Japan goes into semiannual regulatory reform talks with the European Union this week, with some participants expecting to make headway on bilateral free trade. But others believe hurdles remain, saying the form of economic partnership the 27-member European economic bloc wants, based on wide-ranging ...
The recent buzz over hybrids and electric cars has overshadowed the massive investments global auto giants are making in fuel-cell vehicles — another near-reality dream car that some believe promises an ultimate zero-emissions society. Japan plans to stay on the cutting edge of the ...
The media have lashed out at the Democratic Party of Japan over its apparent backpedaling on wanting a free-trade agreement between Japan and the United States. But experts say that regardless of the party’s aspirations, an FTA between the world’s two biggest economies will ...
The Bank of Japan’s move Tuesday to support corporate finance may stem from its concern that extremely low interest rates are not stimulating the economy amid the financial crisis. Lower borrowing costs are usually believed to improve liquidity in the financial system and boost ...
While modesty has long been seen as a virtue in Japan, the nation’s major banks appeared to break free of the cultural constraint recently as they claimed that the worst of the subprime mortgage crisis is almost over — at least for them. However, ...
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) No toasts were raised, no flowers were handed out. Only the challenge of hard work awaited Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa as he made his debut at a meeting of financial leaders from the Group of Seven major economies over the ...
