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 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making final preparations to announce Japan's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact after holding talks with U.S. President Barack Obama.
A Congressional Research Service reports says the United States "could become directly involved in a military conflict" between Tokyo and Beijing over the Senkaku Islands.
Shozaburo Jimi, leader of the three-Diet-member Kokumin Shinto (People’s New Party), asked the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday to absorb his small opposition force apparently so he can run in this summer’s Upper House election on the LDP’s ticket. LDP sources said their ...
The past few months have put the Japan Coast Guard and Air Self-Defense Force to the test, as they defend the nation’s territorial waters and airspace around the Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, a flash point for potential military clashes with China. ...
The lawmakers raised the issue two days before a White House visit by the conservative Abe, whose previous prime ministership was dogged by historical issues but who is now seen as increasingly pragmatic. Rep. Mike Honda, who spearheaded a 2007 House resolution that took ...
China has a "deeply ingrained" need to spar with neighbors over territory, because the Communist Party uses the disputes to maintain strong domestic support, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says.
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travels to Washington this week for a summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, his first job may be to convince the president he’s not a rightwing fanatic seeking confrontation in East Asia, but rather a calm partner who can ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration plans to dispatch Finance Minister Taro Aso to Monday’s inauguration ceremony for incoming South Korean President Park Geun Hye, but will also send an official to a controversial ceremony dealing with Takeshima, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday. ...
Buying foreign bonds will be unnecessary under the next Bank of Japan governor, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday, backing away from a proposal that other nations alleged was an attempt to weaken the yen. “We decided to consider this (last) November,” Abe told ...
The Diet will approve Japan joining the international treaty on settling cross-border child custody disputes, possibly in May.
The ruling and opposition parities agreed Tuesday to revoke a self-imposed restriction on how nominees for key government positions are endorsed, moving a step closer for the administration to propose a new Bank of Japan governor and vice governors. The Diet affairs chiefs of ...
The government will not disclose its evidence of China's recent locking of weapons-targeting radar on a Japanese warship because doing so would tip its hand on intelligence operations.
