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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
A late-night bombing at a Baghdad cafe frequented by young men playing billiards and video games killed 32 people Thursday, just days before Iraq’s first elections since U.S. troops were withdrawn from the county. It was single deadliest attack in Iraq in a month ...
A massive manhunt is launched in the Boston suburbs after one suspect in the deadly marathon bombings is killed in a confrontation with police and the second is identified but remains at-large.
The FBI released video and photos Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings who were seen carrying backpacks and walking casually among spectators shortly before the blasts. Officials hope that publicizing the images, culled from a trove of digital information, will help ...
The bombs that tore through a crowd of spectators at the Boston Marathon could have cost as little as $100 to build and were made of the most ordinary ingredients — so ordinary, in fact, that investigators could face a gargantuan challenge in attempting ...
Troubling anniversaries linked to U.S. extremists have fueled speculation about who is behind the Boston bombings even though investigators have yet to publicly cast blame on any culprits. The twin bombs left at the marathon’s finish line Monday, which killed three people and wounded ...
It is “indisputable” that the United States engaged in torture after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and top officials are ultimately to blame, an independent review released Tuesday says. The lengthy bipartisan report, led by two former lawmakers, found intelligence officers and military ...
When the bombs went off on Boston's Boylston Street, bystanders ran toward the smoke, realizing the dangers but hoping to save lives.
After nearly a dozen years of foiled plots, the United States on Monday suffered the first large-scale bombing since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, opened an era of heightened security affecting nearly every aspect of American life. The disruption of those plots underscores ...
Moktar Belmoktar, a one-eyed Islamist militant leader who Chad claimed was killed in Mali last month, died by setting off explosives “in despair” over the death of one of his comrades, Chad’s president, Idriss Deby, said in an interview. “We have proof of his ...
The public pledge of allegiance to al-Qaida by Syria’s fiercest rebel group, Jabhat al-Nusra, ultimately serves the interests of President Bashar Assad’s regime, according to analysts. “It’s a point in the regime’s favor because it reinforces the official narrative that claims (the proregime army ...
The U.S. military justice system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been dogged by charges of secret monitoring of proceedings and defense communications, became embroiled in a fresh controversy Thursday when it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of defense emails were turned over ...
Aboard the USS Boxer, somewhere in the Indian Ocean, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame was sitting across from a team of interrogators, talking and talking. In secure meeting rooms in Washington, senior officials in the Obama administration were wringing their hands over what to do with ...