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 ...
A soldier pleaded guilty to charges Thursday in connection with the largest leak of classified material in U.S. history and gave his first detailed explanation of his actions. He said he sent the material to WikiLeaks to enlighten the public about Washington’s foreign and ...
When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he did not have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets. He pulled together a 76-page ...
The White House announces new efforts to fight the theft of trade secrets, in a broad but relatively restrained response to an emerging global problem that was brought into sharp focus by evidence linking online stealing to China's military.
Israel has denied that a reputed Australian-Israeli agent of its Mossad spy agency who committed suicide in secret custody in 2010 had contact with Australian intelligence services. The statement issued Tuesday from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office is the first time Israel has named ...
Israel on Wednesday admitted for the first time that it had held an Israeli with dual citizenship under a false name for security reasons, and that he died in prison more than two years ago — details that shed new light on a case ...
A Taiwanese admiral has been questioned over his alleged involvement in one of the island’s worst espionage cases, officials said Monday, as concerns mount over Chinese infiltration of the military. Defense Ministry spokesman David Lo announced the admiral has come under investigation, but declined ...
FOCUS The rapid collapse of a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya exposed the vulnerabilities of State Department facilities overseas. But the CIA’s ability to fend off a second attack that same night provided a glimpse of a key element in the agency’s defensive arsenal: ...
Washington AFP-JIJI The United States was planning a new launch of its tiny, pilotless military space plane for Tuesday as part of a futuristic air force program that has fueled speculation over its mission. The X-37B, which weighs 5 tons and is 8.9 meters ...
