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 ...
Reviewing its response to the Algerian hostage crisis last month, the government admitted Thursday it doesn’t have enough Arabic-speaking diplomats or military attaches in Africa, making it nearly impossible to gather sufficient intelligence. According to a 19-page interim report, the embassy in Algeria — ...
Nicolas Clavel, portfolio manager at commodities fund Scipion Capital Ltd., is brushing aside worries about impacts on investment in Africa from last month’s terrorist attack on a natural gas complex in Algeria. “In terms of investment in Africa, I don’t essentially think that there ...
Senior members of the Obama administration reportedly want to put the mastermind of the terrorist attack on an Algerian gas facility on a secret "kill" list.
North African countries have been a magnet for Western and Japanese businesses thanks to sizeable gas and oil deposits, proximity to the European market and the potential of their internal markets driven by young, growing populations. Some firms, however, are re-evaluating the benefits versus ...
One of the 10 Japanese killed in the hostage crisis in Algeria last month, a top adviser of JGC Corp., tried to ask the Japanese ambassador to help talk the Algerian military into refraining from attacking the Islamist terrorists, sources close to him said ...
The government plans to compile measures aimed at protecting Japanese nationals overseas as early as March following the recent terrorism incident in Algeria that resulted in the deaths of 10 Japanese, officials said Tuesday. “The government must work as one to apply the lessons ...
The body of the 10th Japanese national killed during the Algerian hostage crisis arrives home at Narita airport, a day after coffins carrying the nine other victims were returned.
The victims’ right to privacy was pitted against the public’s right to know as the media pressed for the names of the Algerian hostage crisis victims to be disclosed while the government and JGC Corp. remained tight-lipped, but Tokyo finally caved Friday, revealing the ...
Japanese nationals accounted for the largest number of foreign hostages killed during last week’s dramatic standoff with Islamic militants in southeastern Algeria, with Tokyo confirming the 10th victim Thursday. Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said Monday that 37 hostages from eight overseas countries were ...
The bodies of nine of the 10 Japanese killed in the hostage crisis at an Algerian natural gas plant are flown back to Tokyo, along with seven survivors.
The government is still looking to revise the Bank of Japan Law to ensure the central bank keeps easing monetary policy and helps revive the country’s economy struggling under deflation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday. Given the need for continued bold monetary easing, ...
The final missing Japanese worker in the hostage crisis at an Algerian natural gas complex is confirmed dead from the remains of various victims taken to Algiers.
