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 ...
China is awash with nondescript new office buildings, so the 12-story tower in Shanghai’s Pudong area hardly looked likely to cause global headlines. Not even propaganda posters on walls surrounding it or People’s Liberation Army guards standing at the gates made the building stand ...
The White House moved Friday to make nearly all federally funded research freely available to the public, the latest advance in a long-running battle over access to research that exploded into view last month after the suicide of free-information activist Aaron Swartz. In a ...
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.
Apple said it was hit by hackers who wormed their way into the company’s system but evidently failed to steal any data. The firm said Tuesday it is working with law enforcement officials to hunt down the hackers, who appeared tied to a series ...
Mandiant says it was able to track an extensive hacking campaign back to the Chinese military in part by exploiting China’s own Web restrictions. China’s “Great Firewall” blocks Web access to, among other things, Facebook and Twitter. People in China can get around the ...
The Chinese Army controls some of the most prolific hackers in the world, an Internet security firm that traced a host of cyber-attacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai reports.
Warnings about the zombie apocalypse may seem pretty amusing, but officials are dead serious about figuring out who hacked into the U.S. public warning system to broadcast such messages in several states. So far, people in California, Michigan, Montana and New Mexico have heard ...
The White House cybersecurity executive order signed by President Barack Obama on Wednesday is expected to be the most comprehensive plan yet for confronting electronic attacks on America’s computer networks, or at least a good-faith effort amid an alarming tide in industrial espionage in ...
Myanmar’s government denied Monday that it was behind a possible attempt to hack into the email accounts of journalists working for foreign and local media who Google warned might have been the targets of “state-sponsored attackers.” At least 12 reporters, including a Yangon-based correspondent ...
The Secret Service said Friday that it is investigating the theft of numerous personal emails from members of the Bush family, after an apparent hacker leaked the emails and Bush family photos to the Smoking Gun news website. The Smoking Gun’s report, posted late ...
