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's Cabinet has become the first to exceed the 70 percent support rate threshold since September 2009, according to a new survey.
Only 13 percent of about 6,000 junior high and high school students in and around Tokyo think the use of “dappo habu” (quasi-legal drugs) is a matter of individual freedom, a poll showed Tuesday. Quasi-legal drugs are substances that are chemically similar in composition ...
Slightly more Japanese oppose allowing married couples to use separate family names than people who support changing the law, according to a new government survey.
Toyota Motor Corp. maintained first place in Japan’s Best Global Brands rankings for the fifth straight year, U.S. consulting firm Interbrand Corp. said Wednesday. Toyota was followed by Honda Motor Co. and Canon Inc. in the 2013 rankings. The top nine remained unchanged from ...
One of out every 10 women aged 24 or younger continues to smoke after becoming pregnant, an Environment Ministry survey said Sunday. The nationwide survey, conducted on some 33,000 pregnant women and their partners from 2011 to 2012, also said 63 percent of their ...
Some 88 percent of 168 Japanese companies in Africa that responded to a Japan External Trade Organization survey said they are worried about political and social instability on the continent. The findings of the poll, which was conducted between August and October last year, ...
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 ...
Ramen’s rise to global prominence has taken many forms: Japanese noodle shops debuting to great acclaim overseas, from Sydney to Honolulu to London; the proliferation of English-language ramen blogs; international chefs incorporating elements of the dish into their cuisine. Now, the worldwide interest in ...
China plans to conduct a geographical survey of the disputed Senkaku Islands, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Tuesday. The survey is part of a program to map China’s “territorial islands and reefs,” Xinhua said, citing a state geographical agency. The program is part ...
The support rate for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s nascent Cabinet stood at 62.0 percent against a disapproval score of 21.8 percent, an opinion poll by Kyodo News showed Thursday. In the nationwide telephone survey of 1,031 people conducted Wednesday and Thursday, support for the ...
