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 ...
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit Tochigi Prefecture and its vicinity Monday, setting buildings in the capital swaying but causing no tsunami, seismologists said. NHK said no abnormalities were detected at nuclear power plants near the epicenter, which was north of Tokyo, where buildings rocked for ...
About 1,400 small earthquakes have been recorded around Mount Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture over the past month, alarming tourists and residents, who are worried about greater possible dangers to come. Experts say the cluster of tremors, most of which were too small to feel, ...
A massive watercolor painting of the March 2011 disaster that hit the Tohoku region will go on display for 11 days starting March 20 at the Design and Creative Center Kobe. The painting, a poignant of the megaquake and tsunami that hit the region ...
A major 8.0-magnitude earthquake was feared to have flattened villages in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday and triggered a tsunami with destructive potential for Pacific nations. A small tsunami reached part of the Solomons and watches were in effect as far afield as Hawaii, ...
The possibility of Kyushu being hit by a magnitude 6.8 or stronger temblor within 30 years is between 30 to 42 percent under newly revised criteria, a recent report by the government’s earthquake research panel shows. The Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion under the ...
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 ...
Music has played an important role in easing the pain of many people in the Tohoku region whose lives were affected by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. But for Sendai-based violinist Satoko Sato and pianist Mitsuhiro Sakakibara, performing for the survivors ...
Some of the faults running under the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa atomic plant, the world's biggest nuclear power complex, could be considered active under the new regulator's safety standards.
The city of Kobe and surrounding areas on Thursday marked the 18th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that resulted in the loss of 6,434 lives in 1995. Many people, including those who lost loved ones in the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami ...
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 ...
