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 ...
Islamic states urge Syria’s regime and its foes to hold “serious” talks to end the bloodshed.
Iran is stepping up its support for Syria while Russia is still arming President Bashar Assad’s regime and Israel has fired missiles into the country, heightening fears that the conflict may spill over its borders, U.S. officials say. The assessments came as U.S. Vice ...
Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, targeting a convoy believed to contain antiaircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The attack — the first since 2007 — adds a potentially flammable new element to tensions already heightened by ...
The bodies of at least 65 people shot in a mass killing are found in the Syrian city of Aleppo, opposition activists say.
In a significant advance, Syrian rebels overran Taftanaz Air Base in the country’s north Friday, a watchdog said, as talks between the U.N. peace envoy and U.S. and Russian officials failed to make any headway on ending the conflict. “The fighting at Taftanaz military ...
Geneva AP The World Food Program said Tuesday it is unable to help an estimated 1 million Syrians who are going hungry, blaming a lack of security in the war-stricken country. This month, the agency aims to help 1.5 million of the 2.5 million ...
FOCUS In the heart of Syria’s rebel territory, away from the blasts and bullets of the frontlines, another struggle is playing out: one for a new justice system that could shape the future face of the nation should the regime fall. The struggle is ...
Syria’s domestic opposition Monday snubbed a call to dialogue from President Bashar Assad, as NATO powers challenged the leader’s defiant grip on power and dispatched Patriot missile batteries to neighboring Turkey. The cold shoulder by the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria, ...
President Bashar Assad offered a road map to end Syria’s civil war in a rare speech Sunday in which he branded the opposition “slaves” of the West and told foreign powers to stop backing the rebels. The main armed opposition group, the Syrian National ...
Go to any school set aside for Syrian refugee children and the classroom walls are decorated with colorful drawings that, on closer inspection, depict scenes of carnage. Airplanes drop bombs. Soldiers fire guns at civilians. Houses are consumed by flames. Tanks roll down streets ...
Damascus AFP-JIJI Syrians awoke to airstrikes near Damascus on New Year’s Day and the closure of Aleppo Airport after repeated rebel attacks, casting doubts on efforts to end the country’s 21-month civil war. The brutality of the conflict was highlighted in a graphic new ...
The Syrian vice president’s criticism of leader Bashar Assad has highlighted the cracks in the regime’s highest ranks, pitting supporters of compromise against the president’s hardline inner circle. Assad’s closest aides believe the regime should keep fighting and that they can still win a ...
