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 ...
Chinese warships directed their fire-control radar on a Japanese destroyer and a helicopter last month in the East China Sea, the Defense Ministry says.
The government on Tuesday set up a public relations unit dedicated to promoting Japan’s side in the various territorial disputes involving the nation in an apparent effort to show the public that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking a strong stance on the matter. ...
The Japan Coast Guard has freed the skipper of a Chinese coral fishing boat who was arrested Saturday for illegally operating in Japan’s exclusive economic zone near Okinawa’s Miyako Island. The coast guard decided Sunday to release the 63-year-old captain, Xue Changlong, after he ...
The Japan Coast Guard arrests the captain of a Chinese boat on suspicion of illegally fishing for coral in Japan's exclusive economic zone near an island in Okinawa.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated Japan’s stance Friday that there is no territorial dispute with China that needs to be resolved, a comment likely to trigger further anger in Beijing. “No territorial problem exists between (Japan) and China that needs to be resolved nor ...
Access to diplomatic documents at the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s archives has been strictly limited since early January, possibly because a 1950 government paper found in them earlier describes the Senkaku Islands as part of Japanese territory, sources said. The facility is “in the process ...
As fears grow over the simmering Senkakus dispute, scholars from China and Japan are hoping to lower the temperature with expansive talks in Washington to search for common ground. Two U.S.-based scholars, one Japanese and the other Chinese, brought together experts — four from ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government said Tuesday it will effectively expand defense spending for the first time in 11 years in its draft fiscal 2013 budget, in the wake of the growing assertiveness of China around Japan-controlled islets in the East China Sea. The ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggested Tuesday it is necessary for the leaders of Japan and China to hold talks and improve bilateral relations soured by the Senkaku territorial dispute, and that North Korea will face a “strict response” if it conducts another nuclear test. ...
The top Chinese official who was involved in fostering nongovernment ties with Japan met a delegation led by former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on Monday in what appears to be Beijing’s latest attempt to mend soured bilateral ties. The delegates met by former State ...
A boat carrying Taiwanese activists headed for a disputed chain of Japanese-controlled islands turned back Thursday after coast guard vessels from both sides converged and engaged in a water cannon duel.
In the nine months, ASDF fighter jets were scrambled 349 times in total, up 14 from the same period in fiscal 2011, says the ministry's Joint Staff Office.
