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 ...
Creating a system to ensure the speedy delivery of information to the prime minister’s office during an emergency is an urgent task for the government, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said in a recent interview. Ahead of the two-year anniversary of the March ...
Akie Hoshi never imagined she would be able to find work in her hometown of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, just a year after the tsunami spawned by the Great East Japan Earthquake smashed into the coastal city, erasing entire districts. Yet Hoshi has been working ...
When the catastrophic earthquake of March 11, 2011, struck the Tohoku region, Makoto Yanagisawa was researching stem cells at a university laboratory in the United States. “I was thinking of returning (to Japan) someday, but decided to do so sooner after I kept seeing ...
The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization on Wednesday unveiled a series of robots and systems to help deal with disasters such as the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and reduce the danger for workers. The robots, developed under a one-year project, ...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 struck southeast Hokkaido late Saturday, causing blackouts and prompting highway closures in some areas, the Meteorological Agency and local officials said. The focus of the quake, which struck at 11:17 p.m. at a depth of about ...
The Self-Defense Forces, police and the Japan Coast Guard’s regional office in central Japan will use a common coordinate system to speed up the dispatch of relief units in emergencies, according to sources. The Ground Self Defense Force 10th Division, the Chubu Regional Police ...
The number of people who volunteered for disaster relief activities in Japan from October 2010 to October 2011 probably topped 4.3 million — more than triple the amount logged in the 2006 survey, the government said Monday. According to the 2011 survey, an estimated ...
Seismologists said Wednesday they have found clues as to why the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on a fault previously deemed to be of little threat. The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, have repercussions for the country’s earthquake strategy ...
A mere 15 minutes before Azuma Konno, a Democratic Party of Japan candidate running in Sunday’s Lower House election, was set to make a stump speech in front of JR Sendai Station last Friday evening, a 7.4-magnitude quake struck deep off Miyagi’s shore, flooding ...
Search engine giant Google Inc. released Thursday on the Internet panoramic photographs of 34 structures that were hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami last year to preserve images of the devastating disaster. Utilizing its Street View technology, which provides panoramic photos of ...
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says nuclear power is safer than before the 2011 meltdown crisis started at the Fukushima No. 1 atomic plant, now that countries have upped preparedness for natural disasters. Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy ...
Industrial production fell 4.1 percent in September from the previous month in the sharpest drop since the March 2011 quake-tsunami catastrophe, government data showed Tuesday. The third consecutive monthly decline in the index of output at factories came on the back of weak external ...
