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 ...
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 ...
Five suspects arrive in a special fast-track New Delhi court Thursday for the start of their trial for the rape and murder of a young woman on a bus last month.
Taiwan’s police have launched an investigation into a report that gamblers are betting tens of millions of New Taiwan dollars on the life expectancy of terminally ill cancer patients. The investigation comes after the Taipei-based Next magazine claimed that gamblers — including the families ...
Violence against Indian women is widespread and has deep roots. Here are some of the reasons behind the issue: Few female police: Studies show women are more likely to report sex crimes if female police officers are available. India has historically had a much ...
Horror at a deadly gang-rape that appalled the nation has turned to anger in New Delhi, where a leaden-footed government is accused of being out of touch and out of ideas in handling its latest crisis. As dusk descended Sunday on an area of ...
A Swedish court jailed a Swede for eight years on Thursday for paying poor women in the Philippines to rape young kids as he watched on a videolink from his computer in Sweden, local media reported. The Haessleholm district court in southern Sweden found ...
