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 ...
Japan's informal army of young, hyper-nationalist Web users puts U.S. citizen Miki Dezaki in its cross hairs for uploading a video titled "Racism in Japan" on YouTube.
As diplomatic strains with China and South Korea worsen over territorial disputes, more and more Japanese are using the relative anonymity of cyberspace to vent their political spleens online. Enter “Net uyoku,” the people who freely post their ultranationalistic, xenophobic bluster online. Here is ...
Police have turned over to prosecutors their case against Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of the popular 2channel Internet bulletin board, on suspicion he “abetted” drug dealing. The cybercrime unit of the Metropolitan Police Department alleges that allowing posts about trade in amphetamines and other drugs ...
Hiroyuki Nishimura, the founder and ex-operator of online bulletin board 2channel, reportedly ignored hundreds of police emails requesting that online posts on the trade of illegal drugs and other harmful messages be removed from the popular forum, sources said Friday. The emails were found ...
Tokyo, Osaka, Kanagawa and Mie police have all separately apologized to four men who were believed wrongfully arrested recently for online threats sent via their personal computers, which were found to have been infected with a remote-controlled virus without their knowledge. Tokyo police, who ...
Nikon Corp. canceled its planned photo exhibition of wartime sex slaves for “various reasons,” the major camera maker has announced. Although Nikon declined to state the specific reasons for the cancellation, a company spokesman admitted it received a number of complaints about the event, ...
Last week, Japan’s fifth largest discount electronics retailer, Bic Camera, announced it would soon obtain a 50 percent share of Japan’s sixth-largest discount electronics retailer, Kojima, thus making the combined companies Japan’s second-largest electronics retailer. Bic operates 34 stores in large cities while Kojima ...
Japan’s biggest Internet bulletin board service, 2channel, failed to act on 97 percent of official requests that it delete dubious or illicit postings last year, the National Police Agency said Thursday. The Internet Hotline Center, set up by the agency to monitor illicit Web ...
The administrator of 2channel, an online bulletin board, is reluctant to delete “problematic” postings, according to a man who helped monitor the site. The administrator, whose name was not released, “hated too much deletion,” said the man, who used to be a member of ...
It’s difficult to decide which spelling to use. In Japan, the name of North Korea’s striker at the World Cup in South Africa is usually rendered as Chong Tese. North Korea spells it Jong Tae Se, but in those instances where South Korea reports ...
The nation’s largest online forum, 2channel, draws millions of people ranging from the benign to the malignant, from police hunting criminals to politicians and corporations keeping their ears to the rail of public opinion. Key to 2channel’s power, and gravitational pull, is its anonymity. ...
