In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.
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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President Andrew House anticipates a strong launch of the newly unveiled PlayStation 4, the first overhaul of the iconic gaming device since 2006. “This has been a lot longer life cycle than we have previously seen,” House said Thursday. “There ...
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. takes the wraps off the PlayStation 4, marking the first overhaul of its home gaming machine since the 2006 release of the PlayStation 3.
Japanese TV makers are desperately seeking new strategies to revive their flagging operations, and some of the key points include expanding screen sizes, boosting image quality and making them “smarter” and more user-friendly. With midsize televisions barely turning a profit, the nation’s electronics giants ...
Sony is slashing the price on its handheld PlayStation Vita console by as much as one-third as the electronics giant and rivals face stiff rivalry from online games. The company said Monday its 3G/Wi-Fi model will sell for ¥19,980 starting Feb. 28, down from ...
Sony Corp. said Thursday that its net loss from April to December shrank 75 percent from the same period last year and that it remains on track to achieve a full-year profit. The firm lost ¥50.87 billion in the nine months, compared with a ...
Sony Corp., trying to reverse a two-year decline in PlayStation sales, is prepping a powerful new version of the home console to deliver more realistic games and entertainment features, an analyst said. Sony “is 100 percent certain to announce the PlayStation 4″ at a ...
Speculation is growing that Sony Corp. plans to release a new version of its PlayStation game console in early summer following a recent remark by senior official Hiroshi Sakamoto during an interview with Chilean website emol.com. In an article posted by emol.com on Jan. ...
