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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Major food firms are aggressively expanding abroad escape Japan’s shrinking market, dwindling birthrate and aging population. Suntory Holdings Ltd. plans to list its core subsidiary, Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd., on the Tokyo Stock Exchange to raise funds for “food and beverage operations growing ...
In his first term, President Barack Obama instructed the Pentagon to pivot its forces and reorient its strategy toward fast-growing Asia. Instead, the U.S. military finds itself drawn into a string of messy wars in a much poorer part of the world: Africa. Over ...
The United States’ pivot to Asia will not mean any new bases in the region, but existing alliances will be strengthened and modernized, Adm. Samuel Locklear, the chief of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), said Friday. “The U.S. has no intention of establishing more bases” ...
Young Chinese marking the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre are baptized in battles over war memory that shape bilateral relations.
Like many Japanese mothers, Ritsuko Kawasaki fretted over the health and safety risks of remaining in Japan after 2011′s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. So in August she and her two boys moved to the Malaysian island of Penang under a government long-stay program ...