Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
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 ...
Australia will set up an antigang task force based on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s model to combat “the gangs and guns on our streets,” Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sunday. Gillard said the task force, expected to cost 64 million Australian dollars ...
Takahiko Inoue, yakuza boss and Buddhist priest, died Feb. 10 at age 65. The police determined that he fell from the seventh story of the building where his office was located. When the ambulance arrived, Inoue told the crew: “I’m fine. Just take me ...
He shuffled into the room and stopped, plexiglass and cinderblocks framing his slight figure. He looked much as I remembered him from nearly a decade earlier: big eyes in a boyish face, a thin build, long fingers, waist chains. But his eyes, once cold ...
Police said Monday they have detained a U.S. airman in Okinawa for allegedly causing a car accident while driving drunk, the latest in a series of arrests of American servicemen in Japan. Two intoxicated U.S. sailors were arrested for trespassing last month after allegedly ...
The United States on Wednesday put the Inagawa-kai, Japan’s third-largest yakuza group, and its two top bosses on a list of groups and individuals subject to financial sanctions for involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud and other crimes. The addition means Japan’s top ...
The gang rape in India of a young woman and her resulting death last month sparked a national outcry and calls for harsh punishment of the five people charged with the crime. Now the case of one of those suspects, a 17-year-old, is generating ...
With her regal bearing and patrician accent, Jean Harris seemed to be the very model of the classic girls’ school headmistress. She was always the proper lady. In 1977, she was named headmistress of the Madeira School, an exclusive private school for girls set ...
When Sonali Mukherjee spurned the advances of three of her fellow students, they responded by melting her face with acid. But rather than hide herself away, the 27-year-old applied to appear on India’s most-watched TV quiz show — and walked away a millionaire. “If ...
An Indian policeman injured in clashes during a violent protest over a gang-rape in New Delhi died Tuesday, a police spokesman said, as much of the city center remained sealed off following the clashes. Subash Tomar, a 47-year-old constable deployed at the India Gate ...
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday pardoned Paolo Gabriele, his former butler who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing secret papal memos, but banished the once-loyal servant from the Vatican forever. “This morning the Holy Father Benedict XVI visited Paolo Gabriele in ...
