President Barack Obama, now facing the consequences of automatic spending cuts and the complications they raise for his broader domestic agenda, is taking the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a Democratic-controlled Congress in two years. ...
It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chugoku no gunkan (中国の軍艦, Chinese warships) in the Higashi Shina Kai (東シナ海, East China Sea) challenged Japan’s Kaijo Jieitai (海上自衛隊, Maritime Self Defense Forces, MSDF) patrols in a manner deemed kyōiteki (脅威的, threatening). And on Feb. ...
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, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
The U.S. State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting the project will have little impact on climate change. Canada’s oil sands will be developed even if U.S. President Barack Obama denies a permit to the ...
Maybe it’s bargain shopping. Maybe it’s the fallout from the strict U.S. security climate. Maybe it’s a sign of China becoming more comfortable with its international role. But as Chinese companies and entrepreneurs move to invest more overseas, they have been drawn increasingly to ...
The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, the world’s hottest frontier market. Flanked by national flags, Win Aung, the president of Myanmar’s main business association, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jose Fernandez shook hands in Yangon ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought support Monday from the coalition partner of his Liberal Democratic Party for Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade talks, after he and U.S. President Barack Obama made a key confirmation at their Friday summit in Washington. During a ...
When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he did not have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets. He pulled together a 76-page ...
The growing global demand for quinoa by health food enthusiasts isn’t just raising prices for the Andean “supergrain” and living standards among Bolivian farmers — quinoa fever is running up against physical limits. The scramble to grow more of the crop is prompting Bolivian ...
The White House announces new efforts to fight the theft of trade secrets, in a broad but relatively restrained response to an emerging global problem that was brought into sharp focus by evidence linking online stealing to China's military.
Japan registers its largest-ever monthly trade deficit of ¥1.6294 trillion as costs of fossil fuel imports surged with the yen sliding sharply, despite a mild export rebound.
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 ...
Online trading is ballooning as individual investors jump onto the stock market boom that began emerging in November. Average daily trading value soared by more than 70 percent in January from the previous month at the nation’s top online securities firms: SBI Securities Co., ...
China overtook the United States as the world’s largest trading nation in 2012, with two-way trade in merchandise totaling $3.867 trillion, according to data released by China and the U.S. China logged $3.9 billion more in trade with the rest of the world last ...
A proposed agreement on fresh tomatoes imported into the U.S. from Mexico would strengthen antidumping enforcement and reset minimum wholesale prices, the Commerce Department says. The agreement with Mexico’s tomato industry would suspend an investigation initiated after Florida tomato growers complained that Mexican producers ...
