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 ...
President Barack Obama takes the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years.
In his first interview since losing his 2012 White House bid, Mitt Romney likened his experience as a presidential candidate to an unpredictable ride. “We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs. But the ride ends,” Romney said, according to ...
A politician named Obama who is running for governor in Kenya can boast of one big claim to fame: blood relations with the president of the United States. Malik Obama — a half-brother of Barack Obama — is running in Kenya’s elections Monday, though ...
Why has Italy's muddled election result spooked global investors so much? Because it raises unsettling questions about the availability of the financial safety net that has kept Europe from catastrophe for the past six months.
Italian leftist leader Pier Luigi Bersani admits he had "come in first but not won" key elections and asks parties to help him push through reforms amid a political deadlock that has sent markets tumbling.
Alex Ndungu is the latest victim of the harsh mountain winds that blow through the rows of straw huts in Gwa Kungu, a village where those displaced by violence following Kenya’s 2007 election remain even as the nation readies for another election. Alex died ...
Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) is moving forward with plans not only to field candidates nationwide in this summer’s Upper House election but also run against Kansai politicians who oppose its efforts to create a new regional system. “We’re making preparations to ...
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
Italy faces political paralysis as results in crucial national elections show no clear front-runner, leaving the country with an unprecedented hung Parliament.
The country with the developed world's biggest gender income gap has its first female president, but Park Geun Hye already has South Koreans wondering whether she'll improve the status of women.
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
Park Geun Hye became South Korea’s first female president Monday, vowing zero tolerance of North Korean provocations and demanding Pyongyang “abandon its nuclear ambitions” immediately. As leader of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, Park, the 61-year-old daughter of late military strongman Park Chung Hee, faces challenges ...
