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 ...
New research pinpoints how the torch passed from one dominant creature on Earth to another, from the brutish dinosaurs to the crafty mammals. Two studies published Thursday in the journal Science better explain the Earth-shaking consequences of a cosmic collision almost 66 million years ...
A wave of cosmic radiation that smashed into Earth in the eighth century may have come from two black holes that collided, according to a study published Monday that seeks to clear up a mystery raised by a Japanese astrophysicist. Clues for the strange ...
Astronomers are gearing up for thrills this year when Earth gets buzzed by two rogue asteroids and two comets, including a wanderer last seen by the forerunners of mankind. The guardians who scour the heavens for dangerous space rocks are closely tracking an asteroid ...
Astronomers using the most advanced land telescope in the world have unlocked knowledge about how formidable gas giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn come into being. These vast but uninhabitable worlds are created by gobbling up gas and dust that envelop young stars ...
Astronomers using the most advanced land telescope in the world have unlocked knowledge about how formidable gas giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn come into being. These vast but uninhabitable worlds are created by gobbling up gas and dust that envelop young stars ...
Washington AFP-JIJI A meteorite from Mars nicknamed “Black Beauty” could hold vital clues to the planet’s evolution from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, NASA said Thursday. Discovered in Morocco’s Sahara Desert in 2011, the ...
Washington AFP-JIJI A meteorite from Mars nicknamed “Black Beauty” could hold vital clues to the planet’s evolution from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state, NASA said Thursday. Discovered in Morocco’s Sahara Desert in 2011, the ...
Tau Ceti, one the stars closest to us, is a good candidate for hosting an Earth-like planet, astronomers say. Located a relatively close 12 light-years away, the star, which resembles our sun, has five planets that orbit it in a balmy zone that would ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is giving scientists a look at the oldest galaxies ever seen, dating back some 13.3 billion years — providing a glimpse into how the cosmos must have looked right after the big bang. NASA scientists announced Wednesday that Hubble has ...
