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 ...
Adolf Hitler is running for election in India. So is Frankenstein. The tiny northeastern state of Meghalaya has a special fascination for interesting and sometimes controversial names, and the ballot for state elections Saturday did not disappoint. Among the 345 contestants running for the ...
After the resignation of two of her most senior ministers prompted a Cabinet reshuffle ahead of a national election, Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Saturday denied that her government was in shambles. Saturday’s announcement that the two ministers had quit came only three days ...
The Liberal Democratic Party has outlined legislation that would allow the use of all types of online communications tools, including email, Facebook and Twitter, for election campaigns, LDP lawmakers said. “A partial lifting of the ban on online election campaigning would not meet the ...
The 150-day ordinary Diet session that kicked off Monday will be an opportunity for the opposition camp to confront the new Liberal Democratic Party administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Age in the runup to the July Upper House election.
Less than half of Israel’s Arabs, who represent a fifth of the population, are expected to vote in Tuesday’s election, in what pundits say could be their lowest-ever turnout. Despite calls from all sides for them to get out and vote, many feel disenfranchised ...
Barack Obama was to be sworn in Sunday to shoulder the power and burden of the U.S. presidency for a second term, launching two days of inaugural rituals darkened by domestic discord and crises abroad. Obama, 51, will swear to faithfully execute the office ...
South Korea has the chance Wednesday to elect a woman to its top office, an unprecedented step in a nation long dominated by boardrooms of men and ranked only slightly ahead of most Islamic countries when it comes to gender equality. The outcome of ...
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party is still in the lead to win the Dec. 16 general election, results said Monday, with its main competitors, Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) and the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, still in second and third place, ...
Former Tokyo Vice Gov. Naoki Inose is leading in the race for the Dec. 16 Tokyo gubernatorial election, according to a telephone survey. Gubernatorial candidates traditionally run as independents under the supposition that they are in the service of the city’s voters. But they ...
The municipal government of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on Sunday started visiting temporary housing for those affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami with ballot boxes to allow early voting for evacuees prior to the Dec. 16 House of Representatives election. On the first ...
Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe on Sunday ruled out forming a coalition government with the Democratic Party of Japan, headed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, after the Dec. 16 general election. “Mainly together with the New Komeito party, we will promote cooperation (with ...
