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 ...
A 185-ton dock that was swept from Tohoku by the 2011 tsunami and reached a remote coastal area of Washington state will be dismantled and removed by helicopter this month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The removal costs are estimated at ...
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Center said Saturday it will use the 1.5 million Canadian dollars (¥137 million) in its Japan Earthquake Relief Fund to assist the education of young people in the Tohoku region affected by the 2011 disasters. “The future of the region ...
A movie theater in Tokyo will screen a movie with English narration and subtitles Tuesday in which 37 pupils, teachers and parents talk about their experience of the March 2011 quake-tsunami that destroyed Kadonowaki Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The film, “Living Through ...
South Korea has big plans to become a major nuclear energy player, but they are unfolding at a time when the global industry is under intense scrutiny after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. And its ambitions have not been helped by a series of domestic ...
Strong aftershocks hamper efforts to reach tsunami-hit villages in the Solomon Islands, as the death toll after an 8-magnitude earthquake rises to nine, with many more reported missing.
Aid workers struggled to reach tsunami-ravaged villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday as bodies were found in wrecked homes in the South Pacific chain. At least nine people, including a child, were killed when a powerful earthquake set off a tsunami that sent ...
Tsunami 40 cm high are observed at Hachijo Island in the Izu chain off Tokyo following an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
A major 8.0-magnitude earthquake was feared to have flattened villages in the Solomon Islands on Wednesday and triggered a tsunami with destructive potential for Pacific nations. A small tsunami reached part of the Solomons and watches were in effect as far afield as Hawaii, ...
The Meteorological Agency on Wednesday issued tsunami advisories to Japan’s Pacific coastal area from Hokkaido to Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture following a magnitude 8.0 earthquake that shook the Solomon Islands earlier in the day. The agency said that a wave of 10 centimeters hit ...
The number of travelers at domestic airports in fiscal 2011 dropped 3.7 percent year on year to 220.25 million, the lowest level seen in the past decade, as the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear calamities scared away passengers, government data showed. By ...
Music has played an important role in easing the pain of many people in the Tohoku region whose lives were affected by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. But for Sendai-based violinist Satoko Sato and pianist Mitsuhiro Sakakibara, performing for the survivors ...
A 19-meter-long dock that washed up on the coast of Washington last month is tsunami debris from Aomori Prefecture, state authorities confirmed Thursday. The dock was spotted by helicopter on a rugged beach within Olympic National Park on Dec. 18 after the crew of ...
