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 ...
Recalling her son’s funeral, the mother of executed killer Yukinori Matsuda said he appeared to be at peace in his coffin surrounded by flowers. “You couldn’t see your mother’s face before you died,” she had said to the body. The funeral for Matsuda, 39, ...
Thirty investors filed a suit Monday seeking around ¥610 million in damages from Democratic Party of Japan President Banri Kaieda for his alleged misleading investment advice that led them to heavy losses. In the damages suit filed with the Tokyo District Court, the plaintiffs ...
A special Mass was celebrated Sunday at Guam’s main Catholic church for the victims of last week’s attack that killed three Japanese tourists and wounded 11 others. “We, the Catholics, express our condolences to the loved ones” of the victims of Tuesday’s tragedy, Archbishop ...
The family of the suspect in last week's Guam rampage that left three Japanese dead and 11 people injured is remorseful for the tragedy, a local official says.
The bodies of two of the three Japanese victims of a car and knife rampage in Guam arrived Friday evening at Narita International Airport.
In a first for Japan's judicial system, a man is sentenced to hang for killing a woman even though there was only one victim and he had no prior criminal record.
Two Somali men convicted of attempting to hijack an oil tanker operated by a Japanese company in the Arabian Sea in 2011 have appealed the 10-year prison term they were given this month, court officials said Friday. Mohamed Urgus Adeysey and Abdinur Hussein Ali, ...
A Japanese man hospitalized following a knife and vehicle attack in Guam dies, raising the death toll to three.
Rie Sugiyama, 28, killed in a stabbing spree Tuesday on Guam, had been looking forward to her younger brother’s wedding ceremony in the U.S. territory scheduled for Thursday — Valentine’s Day. “I want my daughter back,” said Sugiyama’s father, whose name has not been ...
The National Police Agency unveiled a bill Thursday that would crack down on repeat reckless bicyclists, unlicensed motorists and people who fail to disclose diseases such as epilepsy that could impair their driving. The bill to revise the 1960 Road Traffic Law would oblige ...
For a former schoolmate of Chad Ryan De Soto, the news about the 21-year-old allegedly driving his car into and stabbing Japanese tourists Tuesday night in a Guam tourist area was shocking not only because it was so horrible, but also because it was ...
Two Japanese women are slain on Guam and 11 of their compatriots wounded by a man who mowed down pedestrians with his car before going on a stabbing rampage.
