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 ...
Japan eases its limits on U.S. beef imports, permitting retailers to begin selling meat from cattle less than 30 months old.
Ranchers welcomed Japan’s decision Monday to ease restrictions on U.S. beef imports, saying it will provide a boost to the American meat industry but cautioning that it will take time before exports to Japan reach their levels of a decade ago. Japan is one ...
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry on Monday made an official decision to ease the mad cow restrictions on beef imports from the United States, starting Friday. A draft ministry plan was also approved to scale down BSE testing on cattle raised in Japan ...
Japan will ease beef import restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of mad cow disease effective Feb. 1, health minister Norihisa Tamura said Tuesday. The government will allow meat from cattle aged up to 30 months raised in the United States and Canada to ...
Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry announced Sunday a top-to-bottom “audit” of its cattle industry as the world’s top beef exporter tries to stave off a growing crisis over a case of mad cow disease. Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan and China have suspended all beef ...
