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 ...
Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion. But for years, residents of the area have alleged that security forces have also waged a separate war of rape and murder of civilians, one they continue with impunity ...
Australia will set up an antigang task force based on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s model to combat “the ...
A judge cut $450 million from a $1 billion award to be paid by Samsung in a landmark patent lawsuit ...
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police Friday outside a New Delhi hospital where a 7-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted at school was admitted earlier in the day, police said. Angry youths hurled stones at buses and police, who then used batons to break ...
In an unusual action that quickly sparked debate online, Chinese authorities showed a live broadcast Friday of four foreign drug smugglers in their last hours before execution for killing 13 fishermen. A shocking and apparently unprecedented form of reality TV for China, the program ...
India’s top investigative agency is looking into the role former Air Chief Marshal Shashi Tyagi played in a $750 million helicopter contract marred by reports of bribery. Italian prosecutors suspect that kickbacks worth around 10 percent of the deal, or $68 million, were paid ...
The mother of a British teenager who was raped and left to die on a Goa beach five years ago has blasted India’s “rubbish” legal system over the stalled trial into her daughter’s death. Scarlett Keeling was only 15 years old when her bruised ...
Call it a case of honey laundering. U.S. officials said Wednesday they had mounted a sting operation against two major firms illegally importing honey from China and selling it on the American market, avoiding $180 million in antidumping duties. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
India’s Supreme Court said on Saturday that it will hear “in due course” an execution appeal that has been filed by four bandits convicted for setting off an explosion that killed 22 policemen a decade ago, a lawyer for the men said. The court ...
A Kashmiri separatist was executed Saturday over his role in a deadly attack on Parliament in New Delhi in 2001, an episode that brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Afzal Guru, a former fruit seller, was hanged at Tihar Jail ...
A Taiwanese admiral has been questioned over his alleged involvement in one of the island’s worst espionage cases, officials said Monday, as concerns mount over Chinese infiltration of the military. Defense Ministry spokesman David Lo announced the admiral has come under investigation, but declined ...
Her parents called her “bitiya,” or little daughter. She was her family’s biggest hope. In a country where women are routinely pushed into subservience, this 23-year-old who dreamed of becoming a doctor was going to lift them out of poverty. “Without her we are ...
An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a Briton to six years in prison for his role in a cocaine-smuggling case that led to a death sentence last week against a British grandmother. Julian Anthony Ponder, 43, was convicted of receiving cocaine from 56-year-old Lindsay June ...
Two months after exposing a scandal involving sex tapes, blackmail and lucrative government contracts that got 11 officials fired, blogger Zhu Ruifeng received a surprise visit from Chinese security officials Sunday night. “They are standing outside my door right now, knocking and even kicking ...
Gun owners should roam the streets at night and use their weapons to prevent crimes against women, Delhi’s lieutenant governor has said in the wake of the brutal gang rape and murder of a student in the capital, according to a report Saturday. Tejendra ...
