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 ...
The stabbing frenzy that claimed the lives of two Japanese tourists in the town of Tumon on Guam shocks the normally peaceful resort.
Police believe a man under arrest in connection with online threats that were routed through innocent people's computers may have used PCs at a company where he had been dispatched by his employer.
After a series of embarrassing missteps — including multiple wrongful arrests — police investigating a high-profile cybercrime case Sunday took into custody a 30-year-old man previously convicted of a similar crime on suspicion of using hijacked computers to threaten murder. Yusuke Katayama was convicted ...
Tokyo police arrest a man suspected of making anonymous online threats last year by remotely manipulating other people's computers.
Prosecutors have released Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee, who was arrested Monday in Tokyo on suspicion of selling photo collections containing images of male genitalia, police sources said Thursday. The prosecutors also released two Japanese organizers of a photo exhibition who allegedly sold photo books ...
Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee and two others have been arrested on suspicion of selling photo collections containing images of male genitalia in Tokyo, an act police say constitutes illegal distribution of obscene documents. Kee, 41, a Japan-based photographer known for his published works featuring ...
An 18-year-old Somali accused of trying to hijack an oil tanker operated by a Japanese firm pleaded guilty Monday but denied playing a key role in the attack. The defendant, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, said during the lay ...
Prosecutors question the former chief of the defunct Nuclear Safety Commission about delays in announcing radiation fallout data during the Fukushima crisis.
The lay judges who sentenced two Somali pirates to 10 years in prison Friday said that while they had initial qualms about a case they considered foreign, they came to believe it was their duty as part of the international community to try the ...
Don’t count Honda among the exporters preparing for a financial bonanza from the tumbling yen.
A man arrested Wednesday in connection with the slaying of a Swiss-based Japanese financier and his wife has confessed to killing the couple, claiming he held a grudge against the asset manager over investment losses, police sources said Friday. Tsuyoshi Watanabe, a 43-year-old corporate ...
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Masato Uchishiba is sentenced to five years in prison for raping a female member of a university judo club in 2011 in Tokyo.
