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 ...
The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, the world’s hottest frontier market. Flanked by national flags, Win Aung, the president of Myanmar’s main business association, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jose Fernandez shook hands in Yangon ...
The government is making arrangements to invite Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Tokyo in mid-April, according to government officials. It is hoping to arrange a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Suu Kyi if she can visit sometime between ...
A major Japanese business delegation of around 140 officials, including top executives of big firms, has returned from a six-day tour of Myanmar and Cambodia. Their focus was chiefly on strengthening relations with Myanmar, but some businesses appear hesitant about entering the country, which ...
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 ...
Political reforms are happening because the military/political leaders wanted to end their nation's isolation and benefit from having a more prosperous economy.
In 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar’s current president, Thein Sein, will both turn 70, so a great deal depends on future leaders. On a recent visit I caught up with two promising aspirants who focus on the “politics of the daily.” On ...
A delegation of Japan’s biggest business lobby has told Myanmar President Thein Sein that it will provide money and expertise for the future development of the long-isolated country. Heading the Keidanren delegation of around 100 senior officials from leading domestic businesses, Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman ...
Keidanren, the influential business lobby also known as the Japan Business Federation, plans to send a large-scale mission to Myanmar and Cambodia from Monday through Saturday. Keidanren hopes to address problems blocking Japanese companies from doing business in Myanmar, including flaws in its legal ...
Faced with tapped out markets at home, the United States and Europe, KDDI Corp. is weighing a foray into Myanmar’s mobile phone market that would be part of an overseas push centered on mainland Asia, company officials said Saturday. Working with Sumitomo Corp., the ...
Myanmar is eager to receive direct investment from small and medium-sized enterprises from Japan instead of just waiting for major corporations to invest, said the chief political adviser to Myanmar President Thein Sein. “What we need is the quick doers who will make business ...
Myanmar on Thursday denied accusations it used chemical weapons while shelling ethnic minority rebels in an escalating conflict in the northern state of Kachin. “Our military never uses chemical weapons and we have no intention to use them at all. I think the (Kachin ...
