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 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 ...
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Okinawa for a meeting Saturday with Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima and other local politicians, he’ll be sitting down mostly with fellow Liberal Democratic Party members or those who won with LDP support. Unfortunately for Abe, they all strongly oppose ...
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. ...
Cabinet members are looking to the bright side, stressing that issuance of government bonds in fiscal 2013 won't exceed tax income for the first time in four years.
Delivered Jan. 28, 2013 I would like to begin my address with a few words concerning the terrorist incident that took place in Algeria. Since the incident occurred, the government was engaged in fully concerted efforts to collect information on and rescue the lives ...
Japan and the United States are closer to agreeing to hold a summit between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama on Feb. 21 or 22, Tokyo sources said Monday. Abe, who took office in December and has expressed a strong intention to ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kicks off the 150-day Diet session with a speech focused on the economy rather than his usual right-leaning political rhetoric.
The 2 percent inflation target will produce positive effects in six to 12 months if the Bank of Japan continues to take appropriate measures toward that goal, says Koichi Hamada, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In a recent interview, the professor ...
The support rating for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet has risen to 66.7 percent, up from 62.0 percent in the previous poll in December after the Liberal Democratic Party returned to power, an opinion poll by Kyodo News said Sunday. In the nationwide telephone ...
No Cabinet minister is expected to attend a ceremony in Shimane in February to commemorate the day the Takeshima Islands, now held by South Korea, were incorporated as part of Japan in 1905 in the prelude to Japan’s takeover of the Korean Peninsula, Senior ...
The government is still looking to revise the Bank of Japan Law to ensure the central bank keeps easing monetary policy and helps revive the country’s economy struggling under deflation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday. Given the need for continued bold monetary easing, ...
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe travels to the U.S. next month for a meeting with President Barack Obama, he will find new secretaries of state and defense. Democratic Sen. John Kerry, nominated by Obama to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as the top U.S. diplomat, ...
