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 ...
The president of All Nippon Airways, Boeing’s biggest single customer for its troubled 787 Dreamliner, said Friday he believes the U.S. manufacturer has made progress in resolving problems with the aircraft’s lithium-ion batteries. How soon Boeing can fix the problems, which have led to ...
Boeing Co.’s proposal to get the 787 Dreamliner back in the skies, while comprehensive, will require extensive testing even if approved before regulators end the plane’s grounding, the top U.S. aviation official said. Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta on Wednesday wouldn’t speculate when the ...
The transport ministry unveils steps to aid airlines forced to keep their Boeing 787 jets grounded.
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing is set to propose repairs to the battery problems in its grounded 787 Dreamliner jets that could have them fly again within two months, The New York Times said Thursday. The Times, citing industry and federal officials, said Boeing has ...
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it is examining whether the Boeing 787′s lithium-ion battery problems were due to formation of microscopic structures called dendrites, which can cause overheating. The battery problems caused all Dreamliners to be grounded last month. Dendrites are tiny ...
The U.S. government should reassess its safety approval of Boeing Co.’s 787 lithium-ion batteries, the top U.S. accident investigator said Thursday, casting doubt on whether the Dreamliner’s troubles can be remedied quickly. Switching to a different type of battery would add weight to the ...
Despite a battery fire in one Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner and smoke in another, the type of batteries used to power the plane’s electrical systems aren’t necessarily unsafe — manufacturers just need to build in reliable safeguards, the top U.S. aviation safety investigator said ...
GS Yuasa Corp., the battery maker at the center of the probe on fires that grounded Boeing Co.’s Dreamliner fleet, said it will maintain its production plan for car and aircraft lithium-ion cells even as the plane maker seeks approval for test flights. GS ...
The Japanese panel investigating the Dec. 16 mishap involving an All Nippon Airways 787 Dreamliner said Tuesday signs of an uncontrolled chemical reaction at high temperature, known as a “thermal runaway,” were found in the jet’s main battery. Signs of such a chemical reaction ...
At the same time the U.S. government certified the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as safe, federal rules barred the type of batteries used to power the airliner's electrical systems from being carried as cargo on passenger planes because of the fire risk.
Despite experts’ best efforts to get to the bottom of the mishaps involving Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners, pinpointing the causes may take a while, leaving the timetable for their return to the skies uncertain. All Nippon Airways Co., which has more 787s than any ...
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of the electric carmaker Tesla and aeronautics firm SpaceX, has offered to help Boeing fix the apparent problems with the batteries in its grounded 787 Dreamliner. Spokeswomen from both of Musk’s firms confirmed that he has reached out to ...
