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 ...
The Independence Hall of Korea started holding classes Thursday to teach about a pair of South Korean-held islets at the heart of a bitter sovereignty row with Japan. Some 3,000 people, including elementary school students, their family members and tourists, are expected to attend ...
South Korea’s elementary and secondary school students will spend more hours studying about the history of a pair of islets controlled by their country but claimed by Japan, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday, citing an education ministry official. “We’ve decided to make it mandatory ...
South Korea’s self-employed merchants said Monday they plan to boycott Japanese products to protest Tokyo’s latest sovereignty claim to a pair of islets controlled by South Korea, according to Yonhap News Agency. “The boycott is to show the resolve of merchants to protect Dokdo,” ...
A South Korean man hurled human feces into the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Friday to protest Tokyo’s sovereignty claim to a pair of islets controlled by South Korea, but he was freed by police despite carrying out an identical attack last August, Yonhap ...
With Friday the day that Japan commemorates incorporating Takeshima, a group of rocky Sea of Japan islets now controlled by South Korea, the aging residents of nearby islands have not given up hope that the disputed outcroppings may one day be returned to Japan.
A senior government official Friday attended the annual ceremony commemorating the day Takeshima, now controlled by South Korea, was incorporated as Japanese territory, sparking a protest from Seoul. The presence of Aiko Shimajiri, a parliamentary secretary with the Cabinet Office, at the Takeshima Day ...
Seoul will retaliate if Tokyo sends a senior official to an event held by Shimane Prefecture to promote Japan’s claim to a pair of South Korea-controlled islets, the South’s foreign ministry warns.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration plans to dispatch Finance Minister Taro Aso to Monday’s inauguration ceremony for incoming South Korean President Park Geun Hye, but will also send an official to a controversial ceremony dealing with Takeshima, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday. ...
Shimane Prefecture’s annual ceremony Friday to commemorate Japan’s 1905 annexation of Takeshima will draw at least 18 Diet members, but so far no one in the Cabinet has signaled plans to participate in the event, the prefecture said Monday. The two Takeshima islets, which ...
