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 ...
Two U.S. sailors pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping and injuring a woman in her 20s in Okinawa last October. A lawyer for Petty Officer 3rd Class Skyler Dozierwalker, 23, from Fort Worth Naval Air Base in Texas, told the Naha District Court that he ...
Britain's highest-ranking Catholic leader resigns and removes himself from the upcoming conclave, saying he does not want allegations that he engaged in improper conduct with priests to be a distraction during the solemn process of choosing the next leader of the church's 1.2 billion-member ...
A sect named Defenders of Christ that was broken up in Mexico last month forced women to participate in orgies, discouraged baths and made people eat raw animal organs, the wife of a cult leader said Tuesday. Mexican immigration authorities raided the sex-driven sect’s ...
A Swedish court Thursday overturned the rape conviction of a man who performed a forced “infidelity check” on his girlfriend, prompting calls for the country’s rape laws to be changed. Rachid Zoghlami was convicted of rape and sentenced to two years and eight months ...
A French author has written in graphic detail about her eight-month affair with disgraced former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, calling the relationship “field work” for a controversial new book. The book by Argentina-born Marcela Iacub, a columnist with the leftwing ...
Tens of thousands of Indian troops are deployed to these remote borderlands, their mission to fight a decades-long armed separatist rebellion. But for years, residents of the area have alleged that security forces have also waged a separate war of rape and murder of ...
London AFP-JIJI The cost of keeping police round-the-clock outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in case Julian Assange emerges has hit $4.5 million, British police said Friday. Officers have been stationed outside ever since the WikiLeaks founder jumped bail and fled there on June ...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange regards his bid to become an Australian senator as a defense against potential criminal prosecution in the United States and Britain, a news website reported Monday. Assange spoke to The Conversation website at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he ...
Six Spanish tourists were raped by a gang of armed, masked men in the Mexican resort of Acapulco, in the latest chapter of violence that has tarnished the once-glamorous Pacific coast resort. The vicious, hours-long attack occurred before dawn Monday at a house that ...
The late BBC TV presenter Jimmy Savile was a sexual predator who abused children as young as 8 for more than 50 years, using his fame and eccentricity to hide “in plain sight,” British police said Friday. A three-month investigation with the National Society ...
