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 ...
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.
Japan's atomic power plants are unlikely to be restarted by the end of the year because of the time it ...
Japan's whaling fleet has left the Antarctic Ocean whale sanctuary and appears to be heading home following its smallest catch ...
Training flights for tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft over Japan’s main islands this week will be conducted on existing routes used by U.S. military planes while abiding by domestic aviation regulations, a U.S. Marine Corps officer said Sunday. The American military will ensure that controversial low-altitude ...
A Japanese businessman was shot to death during a robbery early Sunday on a street in Phnom Penh, local police reported. Kosei Kitakura, 43, was attacked by two unidentified men on a motorbike who fired at him as he tried to fight them off, ...
Eight people died amid heavy snowfall in Hokkaido over the weekend, including a woman and her three children trapped in their car, police reported. Kazuyo Miyashita, 40, her son, Daiki, 11, and her two daughters, Misa, 17, and Sayo, 14, have died of carbon ...
Japan and the European Union are preparing to hold summit talks in Tokyo in late March, to declare the launch of formal negotiations on a free-trade accord.
Automatic austerity measures that took effect in the U.S. at midnight Friday are likely to further delay Washington’s plans to move thousands of marines from Okinawa to Guam, and to force changes to American military programs elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region. The spending cuts ...
Two years after the quake-tsunami disaster, prefectural and major municipal governments across the country are continuing to support affected communities in Tohoku with personnel on a large scale, a survey has found. At the end of January, 944 officials from 42 prefectures and 19 ...
U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he understands China has raised tensions over the Senkaku Islands during their summit talks in Washington last month, sources close to the bilateral relationship said. In the inaugural meeting of the two leaders Feb. ...
Animals and insects in the vicinity of the Fukushima No. 1 plant contain high concentrations of radioactive cesium, providing a clue to how radioactivity accumulates in the food chain, a study has shown. More than 6,700 becquerels per kilogram of cesium 137 were detected ...
An 18-year-old youth is arrested over the robbery-murder of a woman in Tokyo’s Kichijoji district after turning himself in to police and confessing to the slaying.
Researchers at Hokkaido University and Juntendo University develop a new therapy to suppress the rejection of liver transplants without the use of immunosuppressive drugs.
Japan and the European Union are preparing to hold summit talks in Tokyo in late March, to declare the launch of formal negotiations on a free-trade accord.
A bullet train derails on the Akita Shinkansen Line, halting all services on part of the route but avoiding injury to the 130 passengers onboard.
