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 ...
President Lee Myung Bak believes North Korea could detonate multiple devices when it goes ahead with a nuclear test expected in the coming weeks or even days. In an interview published Tuesday in the Chosun Ilbo daily, the outgoing president also acknowledged the huge ...
Japan will ask the U.N. this month to set up a panel to investigate North Korea over the abduction issue and other human rights violations.
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, ...
U.S. Defense Secretary-designate Chuck Hagel pledged Thursday to make efforts to ease the burden on Okinawa from hosting the bulk of U.S. military bases in Japan, while promoting President Barack Obama’s goal of rebalancing the U.S. military toward the Asia-Pacific region. In a written ...
As North Korea warns that it plans its third nuclear test since 2006, outside governments and analysts are trying to determine a crucial question: Just what will Pyongyang’s scientists explode? The last two tests are believed to have been of plutonium devices. The next ...
The first satellite launched from South Korean soil is working normally, officials in Seoul said Thursday, a day after the country achieved its space milestone amid high tensions on the Korean Peninsula following North Korea’s recent threat to test a nuclear device. A rocket ...
South Korea said Wednesday it successfully launched a satellite into space from its own soil for the first time, a point of national pride that came weeks after archrival North Korea accomplished a similar feat. The 33-meter, 140-ton Korea Space Launch Vehicle rocket blasted ...
With North Korea appearing set to detonate an atomic device, the U.N. agency that detected its two previous tests says it is prepared to confirm an explosion when it takes place. But experts argue it may be difficult to establish whether the blast is ...
Weeks after its Chairman Eric Schmidt's visit to North Korea, Google has rolled out a detailed map of the isolated state that even labels some of its remote and infamous gulags.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government said Tuesday it will effectively expand defense spending for the first time in 11 years in its draft fiscal 2013 budget, in the wake of the growing assertiveness of China around Japan-controlled islets in the East China Sea. The ...
Japanese and U.S. officials met Monday to discuss ways to dissuade North Korea from carrying out a third nuclear test after Pyongyang’s declaration last week that it will perform one at a “higher level.” During talks in Tokyo, Shinsuke Sugiyama, director general of the ...
A retired Pakistani nuclear scientist has claimed that former Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s 1999 military adventurism in the Kargil region of divided Kashmir failed in part because the North Korea-aided, nuclear-capable Ghauri missiles he wanted to deploy then had a faulty guidance system. ...
