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 ...
About 5 tons of liquid waste containing sodium cyanide leak from a plating factory in Iwate, but the operator says it has retrieved most of the toxic fluid and received no reports of health issues.
The terror lasted less than two minutes: smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient egyptian city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 300 meters to the ground. A ...
Forty-two people were injured, two of them seriously, when a tourist bus crashed through guardrails and plunged onto a railway track Sunday in Oita Prefecture, according to police. The bus, carrying 43 passengers, was passing through the town of Kokonoe when it careered off ...
A section of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine collapsed under the weight of snow, officials said Wednesday, raising new concerns about the condition of the facility, which suffered the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe. There were no injuries after Tuesday’s accident or any ...
An Egyptian driver was killed and a Japanese man was seriously injured Sunday after their car overturned on a road linking the cities of Aswan and Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, according to local police. The car, with three other Japanese tourists, overturned after ...
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet operated by All Nippon Airways made an emergency landing Wednesday morning at Takamatsu Airport in Kagawa Prefecture due to smoke in the cockpit, with all 137 on board the domestic flight safely evacuating the plane. With the incident following ...
The captain of a packed ferry that crashed into a New York City pier, injuring 74 people, blamed malfunctioning brakes and a faulty motor for the accident, U.S. investigators said Thursday. “As the boat was coming in, the captain found that the reverse thrust ...
An All Nippon Airways Co. pilot and crew members were being investigated by accident inspectors Sunday, a day after their flight from Tokyo overran the runway at Shonai Airport in northern Japan. While no one was injured among the 161 passengers and six crew ...
