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 ...
Japanese TV makers are desperately seeking new strategies to revive their flagging operations, and some of the key points include expanding screen sizes, boosting image quality and making them “smarter” and more user-friendly. With midsize televisions barely turning a profit, the nation’s electronics giants ...
Sony Corp. said Thursday that its net loss from April to December shrank 75 percent from the same period last year and that it remains on track to achieve a full-year profit. The firm lost ¥50.87 billion in the nine months, compared with a ...
The government plans to launch 4K ultra high-definition TV broadcasting from July 2014, in time for the World Cup soccer finals in Brazil, sources say. The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry plans to use the new TV format to prop up the TV market, ...
