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 ...
Panasonic Corp. is developing a tablet computer for business customers that runs on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system under their new business partnership, sources said Friday. The tablet, which will have a 20-inch liquid crystal display panel, will be the world’s first of ...
Ailing electronics makers Sharp Corp. and Panasonic Corp. are boosting sales of air purifiers in China as pollution worsens in the world’s most populous country, in a bid to recover from record losses. Sharp’s sales of the products, built mainly in Shanghai, tripled last ...
Panasonic Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. are considering setting up a new company possibly in the business year from April to merge their system LSI chip operations, sources said Friday. The move is aimed at rebuilding their respective loss-making businesses by integrating design and development ...
Panasonic Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. are considering setting up a new company possibly in the business year from April to merge their system LSI chip operations, sources said Friday. The move is aimed at rebuilding their respective loss-making businesses by integrating design and development ...
Panasonic Corp. reported Friday an unexpected third-quarter profit because of the weaker yen and restructuring efforts. Net income was ¥61 billion in the three months that ended Dec. 31, compared with a loss of ¥198 billion a year earlier, the Osaka-based company said. Analysts ...
