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 ...
A fuel leak in a Japan Airlines 787 during maintenance work at Narita International Airport was due to a malfunction in the valve of a fuel pipe caused by flaws in coating, the transport ministry said Friday. About 100 liters of jet fuel leaked ...
The Japanese panel investigating the Dec. 16 mishap involving an All Nippon Airways 787 Dreamliner said Tuesday signs of an uncontrolled chemical reaction at high temperature, known as a “thermal runaway,” were found in the jet’s main battery. Signs of such a chemical reaction ...
Japan Airlines, which made a comeback from bankruptcy, says its net profit fell 3.7 percent in the first three quarters of 2012, but the carrier shrugged off the impact from its grounded 787s, raising its full-year profit estimate. The ¥140.6 billion profit the company ...
All Nippon Airways Co. said Thursday its group net profit rose 54.6 percent in the April-December period to ¥52.24 billion, due partly to an increase in business passengers. Its consolidated operating profit rose 18.0 percent to a record ¥107.52 billion for the nine-month period, ...
U.S. regulators say they asked Boeing to provide a full operating history of lithium-ion batteries used in its grounded Dreamliners after All Nippon Airways revealed it had repeatedly replaced the cells even before overheating problems surfaced.
The grounding of two Dreamliner fleets Wednesday not only dents the reputation of U.S. aviation giant Boeing Co. but also threatens to deal a blow to Japanese firms that make around a third of the aircraft, analysts said. Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways ...
The transport ministry has started an investigation into the fuel leaks involving a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has set up a team of experts at its Civil Aviation Bureau and will seek to determine the cause ...
A Japan Airlines Boeing 787 that sprung a fuel leak last week in Boston was again found leaking fuel Sunday during an inspection at Narita International Airport. “Fuel from a nozzle on the left wing used for discharging fuel leaked out,” JAL said in ...
