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 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party-led government will adopt new national defense program guidelines by year’s end, replacing those drafted by his predecessor administration, led by the Democratic Party of Japan, amid China’s accelerating moves to modernize its military. The LDP administration will ...
Chuck Hagel is set to be sworn in as U.S. defense secretary, battered by a confirmation fight even as he faces challenges from Pentagon budget cuts to withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
A senior U.S. officer said Tuesday that possible compulsory budget cuts taking effect next month could force the navy to delay its planned major shift to the Asia-Pacific region and reduce exercises in the region. The naval officer made the remark before reporters after ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reconvened a government policy advisory panel on security issues to review the move to reinterpret the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution so Japan can exercise collective self-defense. Noting recent global power shifts and the changing security environment in ...
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Monday its group net profit in the April-December period plunged 40.1 percent from a year ago to ¥49.14 billion due in part to refunds made to the Defense Ministry and others for purposely overcharging on defense contracts. Mitsubishi Electric, one ...
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 ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera indicated Saturday that he will consider rearranging the ministry's so-called defense officers posted in Japanese embassies to enhance its intelligence-gathering operations abroad.
Officials from Japan and the United States involved in defense and foreign affairs began full-fledged consultations over revising bilateral guidelines on defense cooperation at working-level talks Thursday in Tokyo. One focus of the revisions is likely to be how to beef up cooperation between ...
President Barack Obama was poised to nominate former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel as his new defense secretary Monday, but Republicans are signaling a fierce confirmation fight even though he is one of their own. Obama has decided he wants the 66-year-old to succeed Leon ...
Yakov Stern was born nearly 60 years ago in the young state of Israel, and in one way or another, he has been fighting for its survival ever since. A schoolteacher in the thriving coastal city of Ashkelon, Stern lost his left eye in ...
