Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
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 ...
Inside the ruins of a market demolished by a powerful bomb, four tiny white candles — dwarfed by the scale of the destruction — flickered gently in the freezing rain as dazed Shiite Muslim Hazaras wept for the nearly 90 people killed in the ...
A U.S. senator has said an estimated 4,700 people, including some civilians, have been killed in the contentious bombing raids of America’s secretive drone war, media reported Wednesday. It was the first time a lawmaker or any government representative had referred to a total ...
Thousands of women refused Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shiite Muslims.
A bomb hidden in a water tank ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Quetta late Saturday, killing at least 81 people and wounding more than 160, Pakistani officials said. It was the deadliest incident since bombings targeting Shiites ...
Officials in Britain say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who probably caught it from a family member. The new virus was first identified last ...
The U.S. Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence Monday, recounting the night he shot the al-Qaida leader three times and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian. The commando kept his identity secret in the Esquire magazine ...
Pakistan successfully test-fired on Monday two short-range, nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missiles from a multiple missile launcher, the Defense Ministry said. The ministry gave no information about where the test was carried out. The domestically developed Hatf-IX missiles, with a range of 60 kilometers, can carry ...
A Kashmiri separatist was executed Saturday over his role in a deadly attack on Parliament in New Delhi in 2001, an episode that brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Afzal Guru, a former fruit seller, was hanged at Tihar Jail ...
Pakistan is planning to build a $30 million amusement park in the town where Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs, officials said Monday. The 20-hectare riverside development on the edge of Abbottabad, where the al-Qaida leader was shot dead in May ...
China is poised to take over operational control of a strategic deep-water Pakistani seaport that could serve as a vital economic hub for Beijing and perhaps a key military outpost, according to officials. The construction of the port, in the former fishing village of ...
British doctors said they will insert a titanium plate in the skull of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai to repair a hole left when the Taliban shot her for campaigning for girls’ education. Surgeons at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central English, said Wednesday they ...
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. ...
