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 ...
Japan should use the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade framework to revitalize its economy, former Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi said in a recent interview. “Japan can use the TPP to take advantage of economic dynamism in the Asia-Pacific region and revitalize its own economy. This ...
Keidanren Chairman Hiromasa Yonekura said Tuesday Japan must join the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations no later than May. If substantive TPP talks, currently being held by 11 countries led by the United States, are supposed to end in October, Japan has to join in the ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided not to announce whether Japan will join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks when he meets U.S. President Barack Obama in February, informed sources said Saturday. The decision was shelved by strong opposition from members of his conservative Liberal ...
The dollar briefly topped the ¥90 line Friday morning in Tokyo for the first time in more than 2½ years and the Nikkei 225 average climbed nearly 3 percent to a 32-month high as expectations strengthened that the Bank of Japan will implement drastic ...
Farm minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told U.S. Ambassador John Roos on Tuesday that Japan is opposed to participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations if abolishing tariffs without exceptions is a precondition. Noting that the Liberal Democratic Party pledged ahead of the election in December ...
