Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
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 ...
Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe’s meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat. The company reacted after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests of ...
A Swedish court Thursday overturned the rape conviction of a man who performed a forced “infidelity check” on his girlfriend, prompting calls for the country’s rape laws to be changed. Rachid Zoghlami was convicted of rape and sentenced to two years and eight months ...
Scandinavian Airlines System has seen its business in Japan recover dramatically since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the upturn is continuing, according to an SAS executive.
Britain’s food scare over lasagna with horse meat spread to several other European countries Friday, and officials said they suspected criminal activity was behind the growing scandal. Swedish food giant Findus pulled various frozen meals from store shelves in France and Sweden, a day ...
Sture Bergwall used to be considered Sweden’s worst serial killer after confessing to more than 30 murders over three decades, and being convicted of eight of them. Years later, however, he changed his mind and said his ghastly tales of slaughter, rape and even ...
You know that dog biscuit shaped like a bone but made mostly of wheat? The fact that your dog is satisfied with it instead of going for a piece of your thigh may be one of the big reasons why its ancestors evolved from ...
Perched on a hill by the iron ore mine it was once built around, the sleepy northern Swedish town of Kiruna is in the process of reinventing itself. It has little choice: In four years, it will have been moved somewhere else. At the ...
A Swedish artist has been given the go-ahead to use a painted self-portrait as the photo on his driver’s license after authorities thought the superrealistic picture came from a camera, not a brush. Fredrik Saeker, 29, wanted to see if his work was good ...
