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 ...
Concerned about Egypt’s political instability and the U.S. budget crunch, a growing number of American lawmakers are challenging the wisdom of providing $1.3 billion a year in military aid to Cairo, arguing that the policy is overdue for a wholesale review. Lawmakers say that ...
Well-known political opposition figures stayed away from meetings with visiting Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, some for fear of appearing too close to the U.S. in the still-unsettled politics of Egypt two years after the fall of a U.S.-backed dictator. Kerry encouraged ...
Egyptian authorities held a memorial service Friday at the site of a hot air balloon crash in the southern city of Luxor last week that killed more than a dozen foreign tourists, including four Japanese, inviting embassy officials from the countries affected. No relatives ...
For nearly two weeks, protesters and strikers have shut down much of Egypt’s Port Said, filling the city’s streets with one angry rally after another. At the height of the unrest, they succeeded in closing off the multimillion-dollar Mediterranean port, forcing some ships to ...
The terror lasted less than two minutes: smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient egyptian city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 300 meters to the ground. A ...
A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor catches fire and crashes, killing at least 18 foreign tourists, four of whom are believed to be Japanese.
Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt’s liberal opposition are fearfully asking whether it could it happen in their country too. Their fears of a renegade Islamist attack on any of ...
Egyptians threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at the main presidential palace in Cairo on Friday as thousands rallied against President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood in protests that ignited clashes across the country. The army put up barbed wire, and the Republican Guard ...
The video outraged Egyptians, showing riot police strip and beat a middle-aged man and drag him across the sidewalk as they cracked down on protesters. The followup was even more startling: In his first comments afterward, the man insisted the police were just trying ...
An Egyptian was shot dead as security forces battled protesters throwing gasoline bombs at the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday and President Mohammed Morsi vowed “decisive” police action, a senior medic said. The 23-year-old victim died of a gunshot wound, said Ahmed al-Ansari, ...
As a pathologist, Michael Zimmerman was familiar with dead bodies, but when he was asked to autopsy a mummy for the first time he wasn’t sure what to expect. There were a dozen layers of wrapping that he peeled off one at a time ...
A new element has entered Egypt's wave of political unrest: a group of masked young men called the Black Bloc who present themselves as the defenders of protesters opposed to the Islamist president's rule.
