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 ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said Wednesday that they will coordinate closely with each other and the United States in dealing with North Korea, which conducted its third nuclear test Tuesday, a Japanese official said. Speaking by telephone, ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked business leaders Tuesday to raise wages in a rare move reflecting the administration’s resolve to accelerate the battle against chronic deflation. The request was made during talks between the new prime minister and executives of powerful business lobbies, including ...
The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rises nearly 2 percent as the yen tumbles against the dollar, helping Japan's exporting companies.
Shotaro Yachi, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet, said the most important diplomatic issue for Japan in the coming decades will be how to develop relations with China. In a recent interview, the former vice foreign minister and the brain behind ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday visits Iwate, one of the three prefectures hit hardest by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and vows to accelerate efforts to rebuild its shattered communities.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reconvened a government policy advisory panel on security issues to review the move to reinterpret the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution so Japan can exercise collective self-defense. Noting recent global power shifts and the changing security environment in ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday that he wasn’t informed of a Chinese navy frigate’s use of fire-control radar targeting a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer in the East China Sea on Jan. 30 until Tuesday, admitting officials were tardy in alerting him. Abe told ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera warns China that it may have violated the United Nations Charter when its warships locked their fire-control radars on a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer and helicopter last month and calls for setting up a hotline between Tokyo and Beijing.
Japanese corporate executives doing business with China as well as diplomats stationed in Japan and neighboring countries are probably breathing a sigh of relief now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dialed down his hawkish stance from the campaign trail in December and has ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is urging business leaders to raise wages, saying it could help stimulate domestic demand and beat chronic deflation. “We’ll ask for the cooperation of companies whose performance is improving” in a bid to boost national income through wage increases, Abe ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa’s planned early exit, almost three weeks before his term runs out, will accelerate a leadership transition that is likely to aid Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign for aggressive easing, analysts say. Shirakawa, 63, said Tuesday he will exit ...
Japan will ask the U.N. this month to set up a panel to investigate North Korea over the abduction issue and other human rights violations.
