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 ...
Among the 780,000 people employed in Japan’s auto industry, only three are women responsible for the rollout of new models. They all work at Nissan Motor Co. Mie Minakuchi is behind the newest Note hatchback, Nissan’s top domestic seller, which has seen sales triple ...
The new PlayStation 4 reflects Sony Corp.’s renewed focus on value-added products to attract selected customers rather than the general public, as the company struggles to turn its slumping electronics business around. In unveiling the successor to the PlayStation 3 launched in 2006, Sony ...
Ailing Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. will cut off stalled capital tieup talks with Taiwanese business partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and give priority to capital alliance negotiations with another firm.
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President Andrew House anticipates a strong launch of the newly unveiled PlayStation 4, the first overhaul of the iconic gaming device since 2006. “This has been a lot longer life cycle than we have previously seen,” House said Thursday. “There ...
A fuel leak in a Japan Airlines 787 during maintenance work at Narita International Airport was due to a malfunction in the valve of a fuel pipe caused by flaws in coating, the transport ministry said Friday. About 100 liters of jet fuel leaked ...
The first official Hello Kitty shop in Austria opened Thursday in a shopping mall in Vienna. Sanrio Co.’s Hello Kitty brand is popular in Europe, and shop manager Thomas Gottsbacher said “there are even people from Germany coming all the way here” to buy ...
The instant messaging app Line is already dominating the lives of young smartphone users in Japan and has spread rapidly elsewhere in the world, but its developer is eyeing even more aggressive growth. Unlike global giants like Facebook and Twitter, the nascent social networking ...
Toyota Motor Corp.’s success in selling Thai-made vehicles to the Middle East and Latin America is fueling a boom for car carriers. Exports of Hilux pickup trucks and Fortuner SUVs helped the Southeast Asian nation overtake China as Toyota’s third-biggest global production hub last ...
Nicolas Clavel, portfolio manager at commodities fund Scipion Capital Ltd., is brushing aside worries about impacts on investment in Africa from last month’s terrorist attack on a natural gas complex in Algeria. “In terms of investment in Africa, I don’t essentially think that there ...
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing is set to propose repairs to the battery problems in its grounded 787 Dreamliner jets that could have them fly again within two months, The New York Times said Thursday. The Times, citing industry and federal officials, said Boeing has ...
A panel of experts under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has confirmed its plan to urge Kansai Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. to make more cuts in their fuel and personnel spending, a move that will likely lead to ...
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. takes the wraps off the PlayStation 4, marking the first overhaul of its home gaming machine since the 2006 release of the PlayStation 3.
