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 Japanese panel investigating the Dec. 16 mishap involving an All Nippon Airways 787 Dreamliner said Tuesday signs of an uncontrolled chemical reaction at high temperature, known as a “thermal runaway,” were found in the jet’s main battery. Signs of such a chemical reaction ...
All Nippon Airways Co. said Thursday its group net profit rose 54.6 percent in the April-December period to ¥52.24 billion, due partly to an increase in business passengers. Its consolidated operating profit rose 18.0 percent to a record ¥107.52 billion for the nine-month period, ...
U.S. regulators say they asked Boeing to provide a full operating history of lithium-ion batteries used in its grounded Dreamliners after All Nippon Airways revealed it had repeatedly replaced the cells even before overheating problems surfaced.
All Nippon Airways Co. announced Saturday that it will cancel 379 flights in February due to the worldwide grounding of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners. ANA said the cancellation from Feb. 1 of 245 flights on domestic routes over 12 days and 134 on international ...
Japanese aviation authorities said Wednesday they found no evidence of overcharging in a charred lithium-ion battery on the All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner that made an emergency landing last week in Kagawa Prefecture. The output voltage of the main battery of the ...
The worldwide grounding of Boeing Co.’s new 787 Dreamliner has overshadowed the business strategies of the airlines who rushed to introduce the problem-hit jet ahead of their rivals, as well as the Japanese companies supplying parts for it. The 787, which uses cutting-edge electronic ...
The grounding of two Dreamliner fleets Wednesday not only dents the reputation of U.S. aviation giant Boeing Co. but also threatens to deal a blow to Japanese firms that make around a third of the aircraft, analysts said. Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways ...
A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 that sprung a fuel leak last week in Boston was again found leaking fuel Sunday during an inspection at Narita International Airport. “Fuel from a nozzle on the left wing used for discharging fuel leaked out,” JAL said in ...
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 ...
