In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.
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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Boeing Co.’s proposal to get the 787 Dreamliner back in the skies, while comprehensive, will require extensive testing even if approved before regulators end the plane’s grounding, the top U.S. aviation official said. Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta on Wednesday wouldn’t speculate when the ...
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing is set to propose repairs to the battery problems in its grounded 787 Dreamliner jets that could have them fly again within two months, The New York Times said Thursday. The Times, citing industry and federal officials, said Boeing has ...
For the first time since the mid-1990s, sales of the 100 biggest arms dealers, excluding China, declined in 2011 as the economic crisis prompted budget cuts, a Stockholm-based think tank says.
Despite experts’ best efforts to get to the bottom of the mishaps involving Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners, pinpointing the causes may take a while, leaving the timetable for their return to the skies uncertain. All Nippon Airways Co., which has more 787s than any ...
As Boeing showed off its multibillion-dollar baby on the Dreamliner's promotional world tour in 2011, one quirky feature was regularly pointed out: a sleekly designed but redundant ashtray, a compliance with regulations laid down in a different age.
Japanese and U.S. transportation officials went to Kyoto on Monday to inspect GS Yuasa Corp., which supplies lithium-ion batteries for Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners, following the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways Co. 787 last week that prompted the worldwide grounding 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 ...
The transport ministry has started an investigation into the fuel leaks involving a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has set up a team of experts at its Civil Aviation Bureau and will seek to determine the cause ...
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 ...
