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 ...
For the countless number of budding visual artists in Japan, 3331 Arts Chiyoda’s “Independents” exhibitions, which are held in the event space’s main gallery, offer the chance to publicly show works and get feedback from some of the most prominent artists, critics and curators ...
3331 Arts Chiyoda Closes Dec. 25 Last year, when artists running the art-event space 3331 Arts Chiyoda were commissioned by the Chiyoda Ward Office to organize a project in support of people with disabilities, they decided to create a new category of art. Instead ...
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo’s Odaiba waterfront district has unveiled a new anime program that is both fun and educational for families. The 30-minute film “Encounter with Earth” brings the concept of the carbon cycle closer to the ...
In the last few decades, clinical depression in Japan has emerged from its longstanding obscurity shrouded in shame and guilt to becoming far more openly recognized as a national disease. A 2010 report by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry put the number of ...
The Nara Mahoroba-kan, the pilot store and tourism information center run by the Nara Prefectural Government in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi district, is hosting a series of events to help communities and businesses affected by torrential rain and typhoons that hit the southern parts of prefecture ...
If you missed the B1 Gold Grand Prix of so-called B-class cuisines in Hyogo this month, The 9th Saitama B-class Local Gourmet King Championship should satisfy your appetite. The event will showcase high-quality twists on common dishes on the cheap, featuring 36 entries from ...
Is the hikikomori phenomenon unique to Japan — or does it exist in other societies, too? A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Japan and France is currently trying to answer just that question, in a project that could change how the issue of those ...
Eiki Ito, 49, started programming a shōgi (Japanese chess) computer in 1998, because back then, he says, his job with an IT firm wasn’t keeping him busy enough. Thirteen years later, his pet machine boasts a computing ability of 4 million moves per second. ...
Next time you have a chance to visit the Tokyo National Museum (TNM) in Tokyo’s Ueno district, before walking around that home to a vast and impressive collection of traditional Japanese paintings, sculptures and crafts, remember to make a quick stop in the room ...
To whom does scientific debate belong? That was a central question raised by many of the 200-plus people who attended a citizens’ forum in Tokyo on Oct. 12, as they criticized the ways in which the Japanese government and radiation specialists working for it ...
