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 year. ...
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 ...
A new tablet may be the last gasp of the Galapagos syndrome in Japan. Apple’s iPad, introduced earlier this year, is not only a smash hit, it has created a whole new consumer space for tablet computing. While competitors such as RIM and Samsung ...
With the trend toward smart phones and tablet devices growing, NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced Tuesday the debut of Samsung’s flagship hand-held devices: the Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy S smart phone. “Today is a big day for our partnership,” said J.K. Shin, who heads ...
Outside a small town in Gifu Prefecture is a little-known scientific research establishment engaged in a project to “create a sun on the Earth.” If successful, this venture will profoundly affect the lives of most people in the world. The National Institute for Fusion ...
Far from the chaos of the Makuhari Messe exhibition center, which was filled with tens of thousands of gamers plus noisy games and event stages, members of the press, privileged bloggers and select VIPs saw a different side of the Tokyo Game Show. New ...
With record figures of 81,469 attendees last Saturday and 77,185 on Sunday, the public days at Tokyo Game Show were swamped with more people than the game companies could handle. Despite many of the bigger booths — Sony, Sega, Capcom and so on — ...
Major video-game makers wowed game fans at the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) on the weekend with products such as Sony’s 3-D games, Microsoft’s controller-free motion-sensor system Kinect and Capcom’s super popular “Monster Hunter” series. But aside from the massive crowds at big game developers’ ...
As of Tuesday, 84,512 people were united in their call for laws banning restrictions on manga / anime content, at least 8,984 people had endorsed same-sex marriage, and 1,609 individuals wanted Panasonic to keep a speech aid for the physically impaired on the market. ...
Web services such as Twitter and YouTube have entered Japan and become familiar tools in the arsenals of Japanese Web surfers. But Netizens in other countries might be hard-pressed to identify the Japanese equivalents to these services, even though they are popular at home. ...
While Twitter itself is still struggling to find a profitable business plan, Japanese ad agencies have quickly embraced the micro-blogging service to create innovative campaigns. This year, Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo has been at the forefront of creating Twitter-based microsites for which they received ...
From high atop the summit of Mount Fuji last summer, despite miserable weather and poor visibility, 32-year-old tech enthusiast Joseph Tame sent video coverage of a spectacular solar eclipse live to the Internet from an impromptu mobile-broadcasting studio. With little more than a laptop ...
Teenagers and marketers aren’t the only ones riding the social- media wave — several police departments in Japan have joined in, running their own community blogs to improve communication with residents. The latest to join the blog craze are four chuzaisho (police stations that ...
The arrival of Apple’s iPad at the end of last month sent shock waves through Japan’s publishing industry. In the ensuing 2 1/2 weeks, dozens of publishers have announced plans to digitize magazine and other content, while others have set up think tanks to ...
