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 ...
U.S. regulators say they asked Boeing to provide a full operating history of lithium-ion batteries used in its grounded Dreamliners after All Nippon Airways revealed it had repeatedly replaced the cells even before overheating problems surfaced.
U.S. investigators examining the battery charger from a Boeing Co. 787 that caught fire this month in Boston have found no evidence of flaws that could have caused the incident. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has completed testing of the charger at the ...
All Nippon Airways Co. announced Saturday that it will cancel 379 flights in February due to the worldwide grounding of Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners. ANA said the cancellation from Feb. 1 of 245 flights on domestic routes over 12 days and 134 on international ...
As Boeing showed off its multibillion-dollar baby on the Dreamliner's promotional world tour in 2011, one quirky feature was regularly pointed out: a sleekly designed but redundant ashtray, a compliance with regulations laid down in a different age.
Japanese aviation authorities said Wednesday they found no evidence of overcharging in a charred lithium-ion battery on the All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner that made an emergency landing last week in Kagawa Prefecture. The output voltage of the main battery of the ...
Japanese and U.S. transportation officials went to Kyoto on Monday to inspect GS Yuasa Corp., which supplies lithium-ion batteries for Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliners, following the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways Co. 787 last week that prompted the worldwide grounding of the ...
The worldwide grounding of Boeing Co.’s new 787 Dreamliner has overshadowed the business strategies of the airlines who rushed to introduce the problem-hit jet ahead of their rivals, as well as the Japanese companies supplying parts for it. The 787, which uses cutting-edge electronic ...
The grounding of two Dreamliner fleets Wednesday not only dents the reputation of U.S. aviation giant Boeing Co. but also threatens to deal a blow to Japanese firms that make around a third of the aircraft, analysts said. Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways ...
The transport ministry has started an investigation into the fuel leaks involving a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has set up a team of experts at its Civil Aviation Bureau and will seek to determine the cause ...
