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 ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that he intends to resign, leaving the White House in exactly the same place it was four years ago: looking to fill the three most important environmental posts in the federal government. The Interior Department, the Environmental Protection ...
Soot ranks as the second-largest human contributor to climate change, according to a new analysis released Tuesday, exerting twice as much of an impact as previously thought. The four-year, 232-page study of black carbon, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, shows that ...
An Australian researcher who discovered a new species of flying frog near Ho Chi Minh City and named it after her mother said it was a rare find so close to such a big metropolis. Helen’s flying frog was discovered by Jodi Rowley, an ...
As dozens of unpredictable bush fires break out due to the extreme heat affecting many parts of Australia, military-style operations are in full swing at a “nerve center” that harnesses state-of-the-art technology allied to the power of social media. Already equipped with the world’s ...
Firefighters battled scores of wildfires raging across Australia on Saturday as a government commission warned that climate change has raised the risk of scorching heat waves becoming more frequent. Temperatures rose to as high as 46.8 degrees Celsius in inland parts of New South ...
Des Moines Iowa AP, BLOOMBERG The federal government on Friday released its final crop report for 2012, detailing heavy losses caused by the worst drought the U.S. has experienced since the 1950s. Much of the attention focused on corn, which is widely used as ...
Last year marked the warmest year on record for the United States and was also the second most extreme ever, the U.S. government agency charged with monitoring weather events said Tuesday. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed ...
The Environment Ministry has requested around ¥11 billion as part of an envisioned extra budget for fiscal 2012 to build centers for research on radiation decontamination in Fukushima Prefecture. The government earlier allocated ¥8 billion for the centers to the prefecture, which is struggling ...
Two construction joint ventures hired to wash radioactive substances off buildings in two Fukushima Prefecture communities in December allowed the tainted water to run off into street gutters, an Environment Ministry official said Tuesday. Although not illegal, the conduct of Taisei Corp., Maeda Corp. ...
On one stretch of the Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard has been reduced to playing traffic cop. For eight hours a day, shipping is allowed to move one way along the 290 km of river between St. Louis, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois, depending ...
Before long now, coming hot on the tail of a Year of the Dragon, it will be a Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac; a year that’s supposed to be lucky. Obviously, though, you shouldn’t push your luck with any snakes you ...
Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market isn’t going anywhere for another year because more contaminated soil has been found at its new site in the Toyosu district, a Tokyo Metropolitan Government official said Friday. The metro government initially planned to move the market to Koto ...
