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 ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a live-fire artillery drill aimed at simulating an “actual war,” state media reported a day after South Korea swore in its first female president. “An endless barrage of shells were fired by artillery pieces on ‘enemy positions,’ ...
U.S. officials made two clandestine visits to North Korea last year in an effort to improve relations after Kim Jong Un assumed power in Pyongyang, media reports reveal.
The U.N. Security Council has been here before . . . several times: debating how to punish North Korea for — as Pyongyang would have it — reacting to the last time it got punished. North Korea flagged last Tuesday’s nuclear test three weeks ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has chaired a high-level meeting that discussed a looming “great turn” in military capability, state media said Sunday, fueling expectations of an imminent nuclear test. Kim made a “historic” speech at the ruling party’s Central Military Commission meeting, ...
North Korea has finally responded to persistent rumors that leader Kim Jong Un had plastic surgery to look like his revered grandfather, issuing an angry denial criticizing what it called “sordid” media reports. Speculation that Kim’s resemblance to the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, ...
Kim Jong Un is portrayed in North Korea’s official state media as a leader without comparison, blessed with a supreme bloodline, flanked by a supportive wife and endowed with the “brilliant” ability to revamp the economy, command an army and guide the space program. ...
The wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared on state television Monday looking pregnant and fueling expectations of an imminent addition to the ruling Kim dynasty. Ri Sol Ju was shown standing by her husband at a memorial service to mark the ...
ANALYSIS With North Korea seemingly intent on going ahead with its rocket launch — despite reports Tuesday that the entire rocket had been removed from the launchpad for repair — the international community must decide how it can punish a country that has proved ...
