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 ...
Michael Stern was prepared for a gradual real estate rebound after buying a New York office tower in December 2009, with plans to convert it to condominiums following a housing plunge that sent prices down 31 percent. Now, long before the final floor tile ...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a rare acknowledgment Saturday night of the economic challenges his country is facing. “This was a very difficult year for our economy,” Ahmadinejad said during a live television interview in which he outlined his government’s budget plan for the ...
Recent concerns about competitive currency devaluations are “overstated,” according to the International Monetary Fund. The yen’s recent sharp fall has sparked concerns about competitive devaluations, the IMF said Thursday in a report on global prospects and policy challenges. “Taking a broader perspective, however, such ...
Japan registers its largest-ever monthly trade deficit of ¥1.6294 trillion as costs of fossil fuel imports surged with the yen sliding sharply, despite a mild export rebound.
The yen's slide may ripple through domestic firms beyond exporters, underscoring pressure on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to prevent the currency rebounding from close to its lowest level since 2010.
The Liberal Democratic Party-led government hopes to hold discussions with the opposition on picking either Toshiro Muto or Kazumasa Iwata, both former Bank of Japan deputy governors, as the next head of the central bank, sources said. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is set ...
Japanese are pouring money into investment trusts at the fastest pace in almost two years, supporting government officials’ assertion to their Group of 20 peers that policies weakening the yen will boost global growth. Data from the Japanese Investment Trusts Association show that net ...
The average monthly income of married women with working husbands stood at ¥59,177 in 2012, up ¥6,082 from the previous year and the highest level since officials started compiling comparable records in 1963. The data show a rise in the number of married women ...
Some Bank of Japan policymakers pointed to the difficulty of achieving 2 percent inflation at their Jan. 21-22 meeting when the central bank decided to introduce the target, according to the minutes released Tuesday. Other Policy Board members, however, said it was “meaningful” to ...
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, will avoid the recession that has engulfed many of its partners in the region and return to growth in the first quarter of 2013, the Bundesbank said Monday. “As it currently looks, a plus in economic output can be expected ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday the government has no intention of buying foreign bonds through a fund with the Bank of Japan, comments that caused the yen to strengthen. “We don’t intend to buy foreign bonds,” Aso told reporters in Tokyo, when asked ...
Finance Minister Taro Aso and his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble, have agreed that the two countries will continue to closely discuss economic and financial matters, a source said. During a 20-minute conversation Friday on the sidelines of a two-day meeting of Group of 20 ...
