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 ...
Washington KYODO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presented President Barack Obama with a golf putter made by a Japanese manufacturer during their meeting Friday at the White House, a government official said. In 1957, Abe’s grandfather, the late Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, and then-U.S. President ...
Japan won't have to vow to scrap all trade tariffs if it joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama confirm.
U.S. groups lobbying for the return of children abducted by a parent across international borders react with skepticism to Japan's plan to ratify the Hague Convention.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is facing a major challenge ahead of his summit with U.S. President Barack Obama later this month, as calls have mounted within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for Japan not to participate in U.S.-led free-trade talks. Abe, who heads the ...
Washington does not want Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bring up the issue of collective self-defense at the Japan-U.S. summit scheduled for later this month.
The United States has pressed Japan to achieve results concerning key bilateral issues before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Washington, effectively setting hurdles for Tokyo, which wants enhanced ties with its main ally, diplomatic sources said. The request, made earlier this month at a ...
John Wilkes Booth “could be the poster child for the tea party,” Erik Jendresen, executive producer of National Geographic Channel’s “Killing Lincoln,” said at Winter TV Press Tour 2013. Booth was not mad, and his views were pretty common when he assassinated President Abraham ...
John Wilkes Booth “could be the poster child for the tea party,” Erik Jendresen, executive producer of National Geographic Channel’s “Killing Lincoln,” said at Winter TV Press Tour 2013. Booth was not mad, and his views were pretty common when he assassinated President Abraham ...
Within four months of becoming a U.S. senator in 1985, John Kerry had traveled to both of that year’s foreign policy hot spots. In Nicaragua, he sought a deal he hoped would end the Reagan administration’s “contra” war. In the Philippines, he concluded that ...
John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, who will likely head President Barack Obama’s second-term national security team, have much in common, including decorated service in Vietnam and their opposition to the Iraq war. More importantly, perhaps, they also share the prospect of quick and painless ...
Often described as the most prestigious award in the world, the Nobel Peace Prize risks losing some of its luster because of the prize committee’s unexpected and controversial choices of late, some observers warn. The European Union, which will pick up the 2012 prize ...
