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 ...
U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he understands China has raised tensions over the Senkaku Islands during their summit talks in Washington last month, sources close to the bilateral relationship said. In the inaugural meeting of the two leaders Feb. ...
Film distributor Prenom-H Co. has gone bankrupt, affected by China’s dispute over the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, Teikoku Databank Ltd. said Monday. The Tokyo-based company received Tokyo District Court approval for the start of its bankruptcy procedures on Feb. 21, ...
China’s official media said Sunday that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during talks with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Friday, failed to secure explicit words of support for Japan amid its dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. ...
The government will not disclose its evidence of China's recent locking of weapons-targeting radar on a Japanese warship because doing so would tip its hand on intelligence operations.
Beneath its bellicose rhetoric, China has been quietly bolstering its territorial claims with ancient documents, academic research, maps and technical data.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee probably isn’t expecting great things from Shinzo Abe or Xi Jinping, the new leaders of Japan and China. Quite the opposite, most likely. Chinese warships pointing missile radar at a Japanese naval vessel in disputed waters is the latest ...
Chinese surveillance ships were spotted near the Senkaku Islands on Sunday, the coast guard reported, showing that China isn’t backing down from Japan’s allegations of radar-lock provocations in the East China Sea. Four Chinese surveillance vessels entered the contiguous zone adjacent to Japan’s territorial ...
Former Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa has an optimistic view about Japan’s current soured relations with Beijing, saying things will probably be on the mend by cherry blossom season. “Japan-China relations have entered a very difficult phase. . . . But I’ve been saying ...
The government has criticized China’s reaction to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent warning against any unilateral moves by Beijing to weaken Japan’s control of the disputed Senkaku Islands. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Sunday accused Clinton of meddling in ...
New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi arrived in China Tuesday for a four-day visit in a bid to mend bilateral ties strained over control over the Senkaku Islands, hoping to meet China’s incoming president, Xi Jinping. The head of the junior coalition partner of the ...
Yohei Kono, a retired liberal politician whose name is most often associated with the statement over wartime sex slavery he made in 1993 as the chief Cabinet secretary, has urged Japan to handle its delicate relations with China in a discreet and coolheaded manner ...
