AP 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 ...
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 ...
Public transit firms in the Chubu region are getting stars in their eyes as they turn to a new strategy to attract customers. There has been an increasing number of movies and TV shows that use scenes with train stations, trains and airports as ...
Inhale. Exhale. The sound of deep breathing echoes in the Main Hall of Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin. The glittering golden walls in the Naka Ward temple contrast sharply with the bright red carpet. Some women are doing yoga exercises to find relaxation in their busy ...
As Filipino Anamaria Ogahara can testify, going to a hospital in a country whose language you don’t speak fluently can be a highly challenging and unnerving experience. Fears about the language barrier prevented Ogahara, a resident in Motosu in Gifu Prefecture, from visiting a ...
Japan has seen an increase in efforts to recycle used cooking oil — a byproduct of supermarkets and cafeterias — as biodiesel to use as a substitute for light diesel oil fuel for vehicles. Improvements in purification techniques have allowed biodiesel to be almost ...
Some 300 people joined an Oct. 27 antinuclear rally staged by a citizens’ group at Hisaya Odori Park in Nagoya. Observing them were 10 students from Chukyo University. The students are taking part in a research project under the supervision of Mitsuru Matsutani, an ...
Donning badges for the first time in more than 20 years has given a new sense of duty to three female officers in the Shiga Prefectural Police who were effectively forced out when they had kids. “We are ready to outdo the rookies,” Toshiko ...
The Chubu region, which boasts more hours of sunlight than average in Japan, is increasingly being targeted for new solar plants by companies wanting to tap into the new feed-in tariff system that guarantees an attractive price for electricity produced from renewable energy. Some ...
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear crisis were unparalled disasters, but people in and around Shizuoka Prefecture fear the ultimate catastrophe — the eruption of Mount Fuji — may be looming. “If Mount Fuji were to erupt, the consequences will be felt ...
Large numbers of jellyfish have been swarming near nine thermal power plants on Ise Bay. Chubu Electric Power Co. estimates that there are close to 24,000 tons of the sea creatures swimming around the area, twice the usual level and the second-most recorded in ...
Every summer, University of The Arts professor James Makins attends a ceramics workshop in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture. This year, with the help of the staff of the International Workshop of Ceramic Art in Tokoname, he brought 13 of his students from the Philadelphia school ...
An engineering scholar at Toyohashi University of Technology in Aichi Prefecture is helping to restore cultural assets damaged by the March 2011 tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, in an effort to make them “a symbol of reconstruction” in the coastal city not far away ...
Breeding goldfish has been a dying industry in and around the city of Yatomi, Aichi Prefecture, but a glimmer of hope remains as a younger generation of breeders are taking over their family businesses. “I could not bear to let the tradition of goldfish ...
