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 ...
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 ...
Thirty investors filed a suit Monday seeking around ¥610 million in damages from Democratic Party of Japan President Banri Kaieda for his alleged misleading investment advice that led them to heavy losses. In the damages suit filed with the Tokyo District Court, the plaintiffs ...
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 ...
With Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa announcing his plan to step down three weeks before this term ends, the battle between the ruling and opposition camps over nominating his successor will only intensify.
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party is still in the lead to win the Dec. 16 general election, results said Monday, with its main competitors, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) and the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, still in second and third place, ...
Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe on Sunday ruled out forming a coalition government with the Democratic Party of Japan, headed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, after the Dec. 16 general election. “Mainly together with the New Komeito party, we will promote cooperation (with ...
