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 government on Wednesday upgraded its basic assessment of the economy for the second straight month, saying industrial output has picked up in February amid expectations that a global economic upturn could perk up exports. “The Japanese economy is bottoming out, while weakness can ...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a rare acknowledgment Saturday night of the economic challenges his country is facing. “This was a very difficult year for our economy,” Ahmadinejad said during a live television interview in which he outlined his government’s budget plan for the ...
Japan’s economic troubles may be pushing the country toward free-trade negotiations with the United States, a goal long-sought by officials in Washington who see it as a potential boon.
China’s demographic time bomb is ticking much louder with the first fall in its labor pool for decades, analysts say, highlighting the risk that the country grows old before it grows rich. The abundant supply of cheap workers in the world’s most populous nation ...
While the easing yen is a welcome development for exporting companies, it is slowly starting to cast a shadow on family budgets, pushing up the price of gasoline and other daily necessities. The average retail price of regular gasoline has gone up for eight ...
Regional economies have “shown partial signs of having bottomed out” on the back of the yen’s recent depreciation and rising stock prices, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Although eight of 11 regions, excluding Hokkaido, Okinawa and quake-hit Tohoku, downgraded their assessments of the economy ...
With his harsh criticism of the Bank of Japan in the spotlight, Shinzo Abe's economic brain, Koichi Hamada, says it is a big step forward for the central bank to finally adopt the new prime minister's 2 percent inflation target.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday called on his Cabinet members, corporate leaders and economic experts to cooperate in mapping out growth strategies to “regain a strong economy” through the combined efforts of the government and private sector. During the first meeting of the ...
East Timor is striking out on its own after 13 years of U.N. protection, facing the daunting challenge of how to retool its economy and ease its dependence on energy to tunnel out of poverty. Foreign troops ended their peacekeeping mission in the half-island ...
Koichi Hamada, one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s special advisers, on Friday condemned past governments led by the Democratic Party of Japan for not pressing the Bank of Japan to conduct enough monetary easing steps to fight the country’s prolonged deflation. “The failure of ...
