President Barack Obama, now facing the consequences of automatic spending cuts and the complications they raise for his broader domestic agenda, is taking the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years. ...
It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chugoku no gunkan (中国の軍艦, Chinese warships) in the Higashi Shina Kai (東シナ海, East China Sea) challenged Japan’s Kaijo Jieitai (海上自衛隊, Maritime Self Defense Forces, MSDF) patrols in a manner deemed kyōiteki (脅威的, threatening). And on Feb. ...
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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
The U.S. State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting the project will have little impact on climate change. Canada’s oil sands will be developed even if U.S. President Barack Obama denies a permit to the ...
Taylor Wilson, 18, has designed a compact nuclear reactor that could one day burn waste from old atomic weapons to power anything from homes and factories to space colonies. The American teen, who gained fame four years ago after designing a fusion reactor he ...
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard says it has captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in a southern area of the country.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to create a comprehensive futures market for energy products at the Tokyo Commodity Exchange in 2014, sources said. The market will list energy products such as liquefied natural gas, coal, fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas ...
An Iraqi telecommunications company raised nearly $1.3 billion Sunday on Baghdad’s small stock exchange in one of the region’s biggest share offers in years — a sign of investor confidence in the fledgling private sector despite violence that still plagues the country. In a ...
The oil and gas industry is trying to ease environmental concerns by developing nontoxic fluids for the drilling process known as fracking, but it is not clear whether the new product will be widely embraced by drilling firms. Houston-based energy giant Halliburton Inc. has ...
A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, ...
An explosion at the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company killed 25 people and injured at least 101 on Thursday, sending a large plume of smoke over the skyline. Rescuers searched the rubble for victims into the night with the aid of rescue dogs, ...
With North Korea appearing set to detonate an atomic device, the U.N. agency that detected its two previous tests says it is prepared to confirm an explosion when it takes place. But experts argue it may be difficult to establish whether the blast is ...
A vote on whether to build a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, the EU member’s first referendum since the end of communism in 1989, looked set to fail Sunday because of insufficient turnout. Final exit poll counts showed that between 20.5 and 21.8 ...
Nine industry bodies, including the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and the Japan Mining Industry Association, urged the government Thursday to swiftly restart the nation’s atomic reactors and take steps to prevent higher electricity charges from impacting their businesses. The groups submitted a petition ...
Canada on Friday approved two major takeovers of energy firms by the Chinese state-owned giant CNOOC and Malaysia’s national oil company, Petronas — deals estimated to top $20 billion in total. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced regulatory approval for CNOOC’s $15.1 billion takeover of ...
