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 ...
Fukushima residents forced out of their homes by the nuclear crisis plan to file group damages suits against the government and Tepco on the second anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. provided false information last year to a panel commissioned by the Diet to investigate the nation’s worst nuclear plant catastrophe, according to sources. The misinformation led the now-defunct panel to cancel an on-site inspection of the building housing reactor 1 ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday it expects to record a ¥120 billion group net loss for the year ending in March instead of ¥45 billion as previously forecasted on expanding fuel costs for thermal power generation caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The ...
Prosecutors seize records of state interviews with Masao Yoshida, the former manager of the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, as part of a criminal probe into Japan's worst nuclear plant disaster.
Prosecutors question the former chief of the defunct Nuclear Safety Commission about delays in announcing radiation fallout data during the Fukushima crisis.
An umbrella body to help Fukushima Prefecture recover from the 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear triple whammy began its first day of work Saturday, following its official launch the day before. The Fukushima Directorate General, based in the prefectural capital, the city of Fukushima, ...
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has approved an outline of safety standards for severe accidents at atomic power plants that may require years of reinforcement work for some reactors idled after the Fukushima disaster. Nuclear plants will need to build secondary control centers at least ...
Japan plummeted to 53rd from the previous year’s 22nd in the 2013 press freedom ranking released Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based nonprofit organization. Japan “has been affected by a lack of transparency and almost zero respect for access to information on subjects ...
Work to remove debris left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami will begin in places previously included in the no-go zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, the Environment Ministry said. The first such work will start Friday in the Tsukabara and Oi ...
An engineering company in Fukushima Prefecture has built the first steam locomotive in Japan in some 20 years, fulfilling an order from a railroad fan eager to do something to support reconstruction in the disaster-hit prefecture. The 4.6-meter-long, 1.5-meter-wide and 2.5-meter-tall engine was put ...
The government earmarked Tuesday ¥156.4 billion for the industry ministry to accelerate efforts to scrap the Fukushima No. 1 plant’s reactors and support companies seeking to export nuclear technologies in the draft budget for the next fiscal year. About ¥4.2 billion will go to ...
Radiation levels in the thyroid glands of 1-year-old children living around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are estimated to be less than 30 millisieverts in most cases, a research team at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences said Sunday. The figure ...
