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 ...
South Korean President Park Geun Hye on Friday urged Japan to squarely face up to past historical issues, alluding to its brutal colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. “We can open up a future of common prosperity with Japan only when Japan honestly reflects ...
In a stunning reversal, U.N. appeals judges Thursday acquitted the former chief of the Yugoslav National Army of aiding and abetting atrocities by rebel Serbs, including the Srebrenica massacre, by providing them with military aid during the Balkan wars. Gen. Momcilo Perisic, a former ...
King Richard I, the 12th-century warrior whose bravery during the Third Crusade gained him the moniker Lionheart, ended up with a heart full of daisies, as well as myrtle, mint and frankincense. Those were among the findings of a French study, announced Thursday, which ...
The mastermind of Britain’s 1963 Great Train Robbery, Bruce Reynolds, died Thursday at age 81 after a life he said had been cursed by his role in one of the 20th century’s most notorious crimes. Reynolds was the brains in a gang that held ...
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, is a leading candidate to become the next U.S. ambassador to Japan, two sources say.
South Korea’s elementary and secondary school students will spend more hours studying about the history of a pair of islets controlled by their country but claimed by Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday, citing an education ministry official. “We’ve decided to make it mandatory ...
To the caches of ammunition and medicines that they lug each day from this border city back into their homeland, Syrian rebels have added new tools to support their fight against President Bashar Assad: metal detectors and pickaxes. The rebels, struggling to finance their ...
Beneath its bellicose rhetoric, China has been quietly bolstering its territorial claims with ancient documents, academic research, maps and technical data.
One of the most iconic paintings in French history, Eugene Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People,” was defaced by a woman with psychiatric problems but escaped permanent damage. The 28-year-old woman, who was being held by police Friday, is accused of using a black marker ...
A French art expert believes he has solved the mystery of the model in a famed 19th-century painting as a result of an art lover’s €1,400 antique shop purchase, which could turn out to be worth €40 million ($54 million). “The Origin of the ...
The powerful Soviet Union may still exist after all — at least on paper: Former Belarusian President Stanislav Shushkevich says the historic 1991 document that proclaimed the death of the communist empire is missing from the archives. Shushkevich discovered that the document was gone ...
A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rummage sale has been auctioned for $92,000. Saco River Auction Co. in Maine held an auction Wednesday night that included a card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club. Troy Thibodeau, manager and auctioneer at Saco ...
