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 administration plans to present its nominees for Bank of Japan governor and vice governors to the Diet by month’s end, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. The terms of the current two vice governors expires March 19, but the administration will announce ...
Political efforts to change a key part of the Constitution that would make it much easier to revise other articles continue to strengthen in the ruling and opposition parties. Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) and Your Party have agreed to cooperate on ...
The North Korean nuclear issue will top the agenda when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds face-to-face talks with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington this week, a source close to the bilateral relationship said. During their inaugural summit Friday, Abe aims to coordinate with ...
Following North Korea’s third nuclear test last week, Japanese officials have expressed concern about the reclusive state’s possible progress toward fitting a miniaturized nuclear warhead atop a medium-range missile. Pyongyang has already successfully test-fired and deployed the Rodong-1 ballistic missile, which has a range ...
The government is making arrangements to invite Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Tokyo in mid-April, according to government officials. It is hoping to arrange a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Suu Kyi if she can visit sometime between ...
Shinzo Abe kicks off a study panel tasked with establishing a Japanese version of the U.S. National Security Council, vowing to enhance the flow of information while consolidating command.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed again Friday to revise the Constitution, including amending war-renouncing Article 9 to allow Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense. At a meeting of a Liberal Democratic Party working group on the constitutional revisions, Abe emphasized that changing ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s long anticipated summit with U.S. President Barack Obama will take place Feb. 22, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced Friday. The main purpose of Abe’s visit to Washington is to “clearly show” that Japan is strengthening ties with the U.S., ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed Thursday to seek a new U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing tougher sanctions against North Korea, in response to Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test conducted in defiance of international opposition. Abe told Obama on the telephone ...
The Lower House on Thursday approved a draft ¥13.1 trillion extra budget for fiscal 2012 to finance a huge economic stimulus package aimed at shoring up the recession-hit economy. The vote, dominated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition, came ahead of ...
Japan and emerging Asian economies agreed Thursday to share their experience in economic development and regional integration with the Palestinian Authority for its nation-building efforts, with the focus on developing the private sector.
Now that a majority of the Diet appears to support joining the international treaty on settling cross-border child custody disputes, the government expressed determination Thursday to push for quick ratification of the 1980 Hague Convention. The Liberal Democratic Party’s joint foreign and legal affairs ...
