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 ...
Jens Weidmann, president of Germany’s central bank, has expressed concern about additional monetary easing steps taken by the Bank of Japan, citing it as an example of the government meddling in the central bank’s business. In a Monday speech posted on the Deutsche Bundesbank’s ...
The Bank of Japan on Tuesday adopted a 2 percent inflation target, caving in to pressure from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, while calling for closer coordination and implementation of bold measures to fight deflation in a joint statement released with the government. In showing ...
The Bank of Japan is expected to modify its monetary easing campaign this week with a 2 percent inflation target after being driven into a political corner by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has put priority on beating chronic deflation. But it remains to ...
Members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet hinted Friday that the Bank of Japan is moving closer to setting a 2 percent inflation target in a joint statement on policy coordination aimed at conquering deflation. “Things are going in a good direction,” economic and ...
Koichi Hamada, one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s special advisers, on Friday condemned past governments led by the Democratic Party of Japan for not pressing the Bank of Japan to conduct enough monetary easing steps to fight the country’s prolonged deflation. “The failure of ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday he wants the next Bank of Japan chief to fully understand his policies for battling chronic deflation and revitalizing the struggling economy. Economic and fiscal policy minister Akira Amari is set to attend the central bank’s Policy Board ...
Having agreed on a ¥20 trillion economic stimulus package and a hefty ¥13.1 trillion supplementary budget, the next big task for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet will be nominating the right person to head the Bank of Japan. Abe told reporters Wednesday ...
