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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.
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police Friday outside a New Delhi hospital where a 7-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted at school was admitted earlier in the day, police said. Angry youths hurled stones at buses and police, who then used batons to break ...
India’s top investigative agency is looking into the role former Air Chief Marshal Shashi Tyagi played in a $750 million helicopter contract marred by reports of bribery. Italian prosecutors suspect that kickbacks worth around 10 percent of the deal, or $68 million, were paid ...
Scientists have found traces of a micro-continent hidden underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, they said in a report published Sunday. The slab, dubbed Mauritia, was probably formed around 61 million to 83 million years ago after Madagascar split from India, but eventually ...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday appealed for calm as he flew to Hyderabad and visited some of the 117 people wounded in twin bombings last week that killed 16 people. Singh also visited the blast site in Dilsukh Nagar, where two bicycle bombs ...
Adolf Hitler is running for election in India. So is Frankenstein. The tiny northeastern state of Meghalaya has a special fascination for interesting and sometimes controversial names, and the ballot for state elections Saturday did not disappoint. Among the 345 contestants running for the ...
The mother of a British teenager who was raped and left to die on a Goa beach five years ago has blasted India’s “rubbish” legal system over the stalled trial into her daughter’s death. Scarlett Keeling was only 15 years old when her bruised ...
Indian police revealed Friday they had been warned of a possible attack by Islamist militants in a bustling shopping area of Hyderabad where twin bombings killed at least 14 people and wounded scores. The nearly simultaneous attacks on Thursday night outside a movie theater ...
An Air India pilot faces the wrath of his bosses after appearing in a YouTube video rapping about bad pay, aging female flight attendants and canceled flights. Titled “Air India Rap,” the homemade track starts with the pilot putting on his uniform before the ...
In India's worst bombing in more than a year, a pair of bombs explodes in a crowded shopping area in Hyderabad, killing at least 12 people and wounding scores of others.
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the site of a colonial-era massacre in India on Wednesday, describing the episode as “deeply shameful” while stopping short of a public apology. On the last leg of a three-day trip aimed at forging deeper economic ties, Cameron ...
Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion. But for years, residents of the area have alleged that security forces have also waged a separate war of rape and murder of ...
The deadly hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant seized by Islamist militants last month struck fresh fear into the minds of Japanese workers and their families in India, prompting them to take security precautions. A growing number of Japanese have settled in India, ...
