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 ...
Scientists have found traces of a micro-continent hidden underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, they said in a report published Sunday. The slab, dubbed Mauritia, was probably formed around ...
Struggling Philippine farmer Liezl Balmaceda has never heard of Madonna, but the U.S. pop star’s endorsement of coconut water may help substantially improve her life. After centuries of replenishing Filipinos, ...
Hong Kong announced measures Friday to curb the amount of baby formula that mainland Chinese visitors can buy as anger grows at shortages in the city’s stores ahead of the ...
A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some became seriously ill with swine flu, a ...
The health properties of red wine have long been debated but an Australian biochemist believes he has created a drop ...
analysis China has cleaned up its air before, but experts say that if it wants to avoid the kind of smog that choked the country this week, it must overhaul an economy fueled by heavily polluting coal and car use. Several days of hazardous ...
As an automatic piano chimed a wedding march, new mother Wang Dan walked down a red carpet toward a hospital room called the White House, minutes after giving birth in a candlelit water pool. The suite is adorned with an enormous rococo sofa and ...
As an automatic piano chimed a wedding march, new mother Wang Dan walked down a red carpet toward a hospital room called the White House, minutes after giving birth in a candlelit water pool. The suite is adorned with an enormous rococo sofa and ...
