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 ...
100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Feb. 2, 1913 Tokyo Central station nears completion The Tokyo Central Railway Station, now under construction at Eiraku-cho, Kojimachi Ward [a now-defunct ward spanning much of present-day Chiyoda Ward], will, when completed next year, make one of the finest structures ...
100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1913 Man survives train fall Tamejiro Kawai, aged 48, a milk-hall keeper in Yamashita-cho, Yokohama, while going by rail from Tokyo to Yokohama a little after midnight Jan. 27, fell between the cars. A by-stander sounded the alarm, ...
100 YEARS AGOWednesday, Dec. 25, 1912 Hokkaido mine blast ‘has killed hundreds’ A part of the Mount Yubari coal mine in Hokkaido exploded at 10 a.m. Monday, possibly trapping up to 238 workers. The explosion area covers about (37,000 sq. meters) and yields about ...
100 YEARS AGOFriday, Nov. 4, 1912 Great Democratic victory in U.S. Ever since Colonel (Theodore) Roosevelt split the Republican Party, and the Democrats at Baltimore chose Dr. (Woodrow) Wilson for their presidential nominee, it was apparent to all unbiased observers that the Democratic candidate ...
100 YEARS AGOThursday, Oct. 3, 1912 Crowds flock to Tokyo Colonial Exposition Despite rainy weather yesterday, the Colonial Exposition at Ueno [in central Tokyo] was visited by an enormous number of people, who thronged in and about the building to enjoy the queer objects. ...
100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1912 Anyone for dynamite? A correspondent reports from Nagano that the magazine of Shiokawa, a powder-maker in Komoro in that prefecture, was broken into and had 600 sticks of dynamite stolen lately. The police arrested Kosaburo Sato, of ...
100 YEARS AGOSaturday, Aug. 3, 1912 Characteristics of the new Emperor The new Sovereign Emperor Yoshihito [who succeeded to the throne on July 30, 1912, and was posthumously known as Taisho], it is said, has many of the qualities of his lately deceased father, ...
100 YEARS AGOTuesday, June 4, 1912 Titanic’s sole Japanese passenger describes his lucky leap for life On board the T.K.K. liner Shinyo, which reached Yokohama yesterday afternoon, was Mr. Masabumi Hosono, Vice-Councilor of the Railway Board, a survivor of the Titanic disaster — the ...
100 YEARS AGO Friday, May 17, 1912 Back from Antarctica Imperial Army Lt. Nobu Shirase and four members of his Antarctic expedition returned to Yokohama yesterday aboard the N.Y.K. Nikko Maru. Among a quantity of things he brought with him were Antarctic fishes, seabirds, ...
100 YEARS AGOFriday, April 19, 1912 The most appalling disaster at sea Reuters news agency, in its second report on the wreck of the Titanic, called the disaster that befell the great floating city “the most appalling on record.” There is no longer any ...
100 YEARS AGOTuesday, March 15, 1912 Frog fights carp for pond croaking rights Frogs are reputedly contentious by nature, and a slight provocation may lead to a bitter feud. But it is seldom that these homey creatures wage war with members of other tribes. ...
100 YEARS AGOWednesday, Feb. 14, 1912 Chinese Emperor abdicates The abdication of the Emperor of China, daily expected for a week, has at last taken place. The Emperor, in his decree issued on the 12th, narrates the steps which led up to the present ...
