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 ...
China is considering former Ambassador to Japan Wang Yi, who currently heads the Taiwan Affairs Office, to replace outgoing Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, multiple Chinese government-related sources said. The consideration of a seasoned diplomat well-versed in Japanese affairs as China’s next foreign minister appears ...
Taiwan’s National Palace Museum and the Tokyo National Museum are selecting 200 Chinese antiquities for exhibitions in Tokyo and Fukuoka in 2014. The exhibitions will be held at the Tokyo National Museum for 12 weeks from June to September 2014 and eight weeks at ...
When the Chinese-speaking world ushers in its new year Sunday, its 12-year zodiac will turn from the dragon to one of the world’s most despised animals, the snake. As undeserved as the snake’s reputation might be, its last two years did not go so ...
Three Japanese banks on Wednesday started offering Chinese yuan clearing services to companies in Taiwan as the island’s domestic banks began accepting deposits and remittances in the mainland’s currency. The three Japanese entities are Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Mizuho ...
A Taiwanese admiral has been questioned over his alleged involvement in one of the island’s worst espionage cases, officials said Monday, as concerns mount over Chinese infiltration of the military. Defense Ministry spokesman David Lo announced the admiral has come under investigation, but declined ...
With Beijing growing in strength, a U.S. scholar is calling for a major rethink on Taiwan in which the island cuts its troop numbers in half and rebrands its army as a self-defense force. The proposal marks a rare break from the conventional view ...
A boat carrying Taiwanese activists headed for a disputed chain of Japanese-controlled islands turned back Thursday after coast guard vessels from both sides converged and engaged in a water cannon duel.
A leisure fishing boat carrying Taiwanese activists, and escorted by four Taiwan Coast Guard vessels, was sailing to a cluster of Japanese-administered islands claimed by Taiwan and China on Thursday morning amid heightened tension in the region. Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration said the fishing ...
Taiwan’s police have launched an investigation into a report that gamblers are betting tens of millions of New Taiwan dollars on the life expectancy of terminally ill cancer patients. The investigation comes after the Taipei-based Next magazine claimed that gamblers — including the families ...
