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 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration will take “drastic” measures to revitalize the economy, Finance Minister Taro Aso pledged Thursday, suggesting that previous policies had been insufficient to beat back more than a decade of deflation. “Deflation is a deep-rooted problem that has undermined the ...
Delivering a key policy speech to the Diet, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says no country should resort to force to "change the status quo" regarding territorial disputes, in an apparent warning to China.
Haruhiko Kuroda, a strong advocate of aggressive monetary easing, is officially nominated as the next Bank of Japan governor.
The Bank of Japan may pack a bigger punch under Haruhiko Kuroda, an opponent of deflation who ran the nation’s currency policy and then built an international reputation leading the Asian Development Bank. Finance Minister Taro Aso told reporters Monday that Kuroda, Prime Minister ...
New research shows that up to a third of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet.
A video clip of first lady Michelle Obama grooving with a dressed-in-drag Jimmy Fallon on his late-night comedy talk show went viral on YouTube on Saturday. In the video, the pair, each clad in conservative slacks and a cardigan, and Fallon with a long ...
The Diet will approve Japan joining the international treaty on settling cross-border child custody disputes, possibly in May.
Now that a majority of the Diet appears to support joining the international treaty on settling cross-border child custody disputes, the government expressed determination Thursday to push for quick ratification of the 1980 Hague Convention. The Liberal Democratic Party’s joint foreign and legal affairs ...
The Democratic Party of Japan refuses to accept a list of 41 nominees for key government positions because the name of one person was leaked to the media.
A Democratic Party of Japan executive surprised the administration Thursday when he said his party, the largest opposition force, will reject the government’s planned nominee to lead the Fair Trade Commission because his name was leaked in a media report. Azuma Koshiishi, who heads ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera warns China that it may have violated the United Nations Charter when its warships locked their fire-control radars on a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer and helicopter last month and calls for setting up a hotline between Tokyo and Beijing.
An antipiracy bill is being prepared to let foreign security contractors on Japanese flag-bearing vessels carry firearms while sailing off Somalia and other pirate-infested waters.
