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 suspect in the Feb. 12 rampage on Guam that left three slain and several others wounded pleads not guilty by reason of mental illness.
The Japan Association of Travel Agents said Wednesday it will start certifying the service qualities of parties handling foreign tourists as part of efforts to boost visitors from abroad, whose numbers have fallen since the 2011 natural and nuclear disasters and recently reignited territorial ...
The terror lasted less than two minutes: smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient egyptian city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 300 meters to the ground. A ...
A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor catches fire and crashes, killing at least 18 foreign tourists, four of whom are believed to be Japanese.
When Venezuela seized billions of dollars in assets from Exxon Mobil and other foreign companies, Chinese state banks and investors didn’t blink. Over the past five years they have loaned Venezuela more than $35 billion. Elsewhere around the Caribbean, as hotels were struggling to ...
The government of Guam is desperate to keep Japanese coming to the island despite last week’s attack that left three tourists dead and 11 people wounded. “It goes without saying,” Antonio Muna of the Guam Visitors Bureau said when asked if the U.S. territory, ...
Officials in Osaka said Monday they will launch a bureau in April to boost tourism. The office will handle the overall tourism strategy for the municipal and prefectural governments. Its first chief will be Kunio Kano, a former Hong Kong Tourism Board official. The ...
Despite ongoing global economic uncertainty, international tourist arrivals exceeded 1 billion for the first time last year, with those numbers expected to rise further in 2013, a U.N. body said Tuesday. The number of arrivals grew by 4 percent to 1.035 billion in 2012, ...
The number of overseas visitors last year jumped an estimated 34.6 percent from 2011 to 8.368 million, the second-highest level on record, the Japan National Tourism Organization said. The figure, which fell short of the record 8.611 million travelers seen in 2010, shows Japan’s ...
Malaysia has been rated the world’s top Muslim-friendly holiday destination in a survey that listed Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Singapore as runners-up. The study released Wednesday by Singapore-based travel consultancy Crescentrating used criteria including the safety levels, the ease of ...
Chinese traveling to Japan from September to December plunged 44 percent from the year before to 190,000 as the feud over the Senkaku Islands heated up, the Immigration Bureau said in a preliminary report. “The number of Chinese tourists appears to have fallen because ...
Posters of U.S. bombers crashing in flames festoon Hanoi to mark another anniversary in a long-finished war. But behind the usual propaganda Vietnam’s rulers face a modern-day threat — anger over the economy. For years the leaders of the one-party state have relied on ...
