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 ...
Competing Democratic and Republican measures to avoid painful government spending cuts failed in the Senate on Thursday, putting the U.S. on course to see $85 billion automatically slashed from government spending.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government said Tuesday it will effectively expand defense spending for the first time in 11 years in its draft fiscal 2013 budget, in the wake of the growing assertiveness of China around Japan-controlled islets in the East China Sea. The ...
The government earmarked Tuesday ¥156.4 billion for the industry ministry to accelerate efforts to scrap the Fukushima No. 1 plant’s reactors and support companies seeking to export nuclear technologies in the draft budget for the next fiscal year. About ¥4.2 billion will go to ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet approves a record ¥92.6 trillion budget, aiming to shore up the economy through large-scale public works projects.
Cabinet members are looking to the bright side, stressing that issuance of government bonds in fiscal 2013 won't exceed tax income for the first time in four years.
The initial general account budget for fiscal 2013 will total around ¥92.6 trillion, down from ¥92.9 trillion last year.
Senate Democrats plan to draft a budget blueprint that calls for significantly higher taxes on the wealthy, on oil and gas companies and on corporations doing business overseas, reopening a battle over taxes that Republicans had hoped to lay to rest with the “fiscal ...
Budget requests by government offices for fiscal 2013 in general-account spending totaled ¥97.88 trillion, a reduction of ¥120.9 billion from those compiled under the previous administration, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. The requests were resubmitted by the offices following the launch Dec. 26 of ...
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday approved a ¥13.1 trillion supplementary budget, the second-biggest of its kind, to fund an economic stimulus package. If it clears the Diet next month as planned, it will bring government spending for fiscal 2012 to ...
