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 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making final preparations to announce Japan's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact after holding talks with U.S. President Barack Obama.
The lawmakers raised the issue two days before a White House visit by the conservative Abe, whose previous prime ministership was dogged by historical issues but who is now seen as increasingly pragmatic. Rep. Mike Honda, who spearheaded a 2007 House resolution that took ...
China has a "deeply ingrained" need to spar with neighbors over territory, because the Communist Party uses the disputes to maintain strong domestic support, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says.
The economy may be heating up, the weather outside may be chilly, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sticks to the middle of the road: lukewarm water. In a Tuesday Facebook entry from the prime minister’s office, Abe wrote that the contents of the thermos ...
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travels to Washington this week for a summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, his first job may be to convince the president he’s not a rightwing fanatic seeking confrontation in East Asia, but rather a calm partner who can ...
Buying foreign bonds will be unnecessary under the next Bank of Japan governor, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday, backing away from a proposal that other nations alleged was an attempt to weaken the yen. “We decided to consider this (last) November,” Abe told ...
The North Korean nuclear issue will top the agenda when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds face-to-face talks with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington this week, a source close to the bilateral relationship said. During their inaugural summit Friday, Abe aims to coordinate with ...
Shinzo Abe kicks off a study panel tasked with establishing a Japanese version of the U.S. National Security Council, vowing to enhance the flow of information while consolidating command.
The mayor of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, has asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to give a lacquered pen to U.S. President Barack Obama as a gift for his second inauguration. Abe will present the red lacquered pen, a local specialty, and a letter from Mayor ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s long anticipated summit with U.S. President Barack Obama will take place Feb. 22, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced Friday. The main purpose of Abe’s visit to Washington is to “clearly show” that Japan is strengthening ties with the U.S., ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed Thursday to seek a new U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing tougher sanctions against North Korea, in response to Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test conducted in defiance of international opposition. Abe told Obama on the telephone ...
Among the components that make up the conservative agenda advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, one stands out for its potential to inflame international relations: a review of Japan’s official stance on the forced recruitment of Asian and European women and girls into wartime ...
