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 ...
New Kansai International Airport Co. plans to hire financial advisers as early as in April for the sale of an airport concession in Osaka, aiming to raise as much as ¥1.2 trillion, sources said. The state-owned airport operator expects to start a global auction ...
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto plans to support two ordinance proposals that would establish an independent investigation team and give the mayor’s office more authority to look into incidents of school bullying and corporal punishment. The proposals, which will be discussed by the municipal assembly ...
Members of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s local party, Osaka Ishin no Kai, and New Komeito, which form the ruling coalition in the municipal assembly, voted against an ordinance proposal Monday that would have clarified the city’s financial responsibilities in the event of health problems ...
An Osaka police lieutenant was sentenced to 18 months in prison Wednesday for fabricating evidence of driving under the influence. Prosecutors had demanded a 36-month term for Kiyoto Yamashita, 58, who was on the Osaka Prefectural Police force. Yamashita made up a document that ...
Special slots for physical education majors will no longer be offered at Osaka’s Sakuranomiya Senior High School, based on a recomendation Mayor Toru Hashimoto made after it was revealed that the captain of the school’s basketball team hanged himself after he was repeatedly beaten ...
In a recent interview on the Barnes & Noble Review website promoting his latest book, historian Jared Diamond mentions how treatment of the young “varies among traditional societies just as it varies among industrial societies,” and gives examples of how some of the former ...
Osaka residents opposed to the city burning Tohoku quake and tsunami debris filed an audit request with the prefecture and the city Friday questioning the financial logic behind the move and saying there is no guarantee that expected central government funding for accepting the ...
Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) founder Toru Hashimoto will be appointed coleader of the party in a move designed to heal the rift between the Osaka faction and Shintaro Ishihara that is threatening the party’s prospects in this summer’s ...
