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 ...
In the first of our new Community Chest letters columns, we bring together a selection of mails received in response to some of the final Community stories of 2012. Dolphin defenders’ bad science Re: “Taiji hunts continue to anger, confound readers,” (Have Your Say, ...
Dear people of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, I hope this letter will be accepted in the spirit it was written, with a deep respect for the Japanese people. I do not wish to attack Taiji, nor its people. I write this in the hope that ...
Readers’ responses received to the Sept. 11 Hotline to Nagatacho column, “Stop the annual Taiji dolphin massacre, make your children proud” by Deb Bowen-Saunders, and letters published on this subject on Oct. 9 (“Call to stop dolphin hunt in Taiji makes waves,” Have Your ...
Some of the many readers’ letters The Japan Times received in response to the Sept. 11 Hotline to Nagatacho column, “Stop the annual Taiji dolphin massacre, make your children proud” by Deb Bowen-Saunders: Dolphins are not people My response to Deb Bowen-Saunders will mirror ...
To the mayor and people of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, I implore you to read all of this very important message. Japan has recently undergone horrific natural disasters and the rest of the world has rallied to help you. Please don’t let their trust in ...
Whales are magnificent creatures I have always dreamt of seeing in the flesh. However, tucking into a slab of whale steak at a restaurant in Tokyo was not what I had in mind. Nevertheless, this was a close encounter with one of the world’s ...
Within minutes of meeting Allison Lance, one might start to wonder if she was a dolphin in a past life. Her enthusiasm and passion in her drive to protect her animal friends is so strong that it touches just about every area of her ...
Ric O’Barry is one of the world’s best-known environmentalists. A former U.S. Navy diver, he later trained the five dolphins that played Flipper in the hit 1960s TV series of that name, before turning against dolphin captivity in 1970. Now aged 67, O’Barry has ...
TAIJI, Wakayama Pref. — Nestled between clear Pacific waters and richly forested mountains and valleys, Taiji and it’s pristine surroundings have remained largely unspoiled thanks to the town’s isolation in southeast Wakayama and the community’s long-standing relationship with the sea and its resources. But ...
