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 ...
A judge cut $450 million from a $1 billion award to be paid by Samsung in a landmark patent lawsuit from Apple, saying a jury had wrongly calculated the damages. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Friday affirmed the remainder of the award, amounting ...
The instant messaging app Line is already dominating the lives of young smartphone users in Japan and has spread rapidly elsewhere in the world, but its developer is eyeing even more aggressive growth. Unlike global giants like Facebook and Twitter, the nascent social networking ...
Tamagotchi is re-hatching as an app. Bandai Co. and Sync Beatz Entertainment Inc. are hoping to revive the electronic pet craze of the 1990s with a new mobile app that debuted Thursday for Android devices in the U.S. The app duplicates the egg-shaped plastic ...
Smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. has confirmed it has no plan at present to sell its new handsets in Japan, although it denied it is abandoning one of the world’s most tech-savvy nations. Having fallen far behind Apple Inc. and lost ground to other smartphone ...
A picture of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un with a smartphone has triggered fevered speculation about which brand is favored by the leader of one of the world’s most repressive nations. The photo released by the North’s state media showed Kim presiding over a ...
The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday previewed two new smartphones as it invited developers to try its new open-source mobile operating system to challenge Apple Inc.’s iOS and Google Inc.’s Android. The announcement marked a major step forward for the new Firefox OS mobile operating ...
More than 50 percent of Japanese mobile phone users in their 20s and 30s have smartphones, according to a new survey. The Jiji Press survey conducted last month found that smartphone users accounted for 64.8 percent of respondents in their 20s, up 22.7 percentage ...
FOCUS So sprawling is Samsung Electronics’ modern-day empire that some South Koreans say it has become possible to live a “Samsung-only” life: You can use a Samsung credit card to buy a Samsung TV on which to watch a Samsung-owned pro baseball team in ...
