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 ...
Susan Boyle is making her big-screen acting debut in a Christmas-themed British period drama. The Scottish singer appears in “The Christmas Candle,” a story of angels and wishes set in an English village in the 1890s. Boyle’s role has not yet been disclosed. In ...
King Richard I, the 12th-century warrior whose bravery during the Third Crusade gained him the moniker Lionheart, ended up with a heart full of daisies, as well as myrtle, mint and frankincense. Those were among the findings of a French study, announced Thursday, which ...
The mastermind of Britain’s 1963 Great Train Robbery, Bruce Reynolds, died Thursday at age 81 after a life he said had been cursed by his role in one of the 20th century’s most notorious crimes. Reynolds was the brains in a gang that held ...
Truth and alcohol may not mix, particularly when people are asked how much they drink. That is the implication of a study released Wednesday that reveals a big gap between the booze Britons own up to drinking and the amount of alcohol sold nationwide. ...
Artwork by British graffiti artist Banksy that appeared listed for auction in the U.S. after disappearing from a London wall earlier this month has been withdrawn from sale, a council official said Sunday. The mural is of a boy making Union Jack bunting on ...
Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, who is due to vote on Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, has been reported to the Vatican over claims of inappropriate behavior, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, contests ...
Coils of Polish sausages glisten on shop counters and vodka bottles line the shelves. In this corner of the English countryside, much of the chatter is in Latvian or Lithuanian. Welcome to Boston, the most Eastern European town in Britain. Census data show that ...
They were very ordinary would-be terrorists, with big plans but bad luck. On Thursday, a London jury convicted the three young British men of being ringleaders of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to explode knapsack bombs in crowded parts of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city. The men ...
The European Union has agreed to immediately launch tests for equine DNA in meat products, seeking to reassure nervous consumers that their food is safe and to stop the continent’s horse-meat scandal from spreading. The program will also look for the presence of phenylbutazone, ...
First there was “pink slime.” Then horse meat. And most recently, “desinewed meat.” Recent revelations that such products have reached dinner tables, including horse meat falsely labeled as beef in Europe, have cast an unappetizing light on the global food industry. Critics say the ...
Officials in Britain say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who probably caught it from a family member. The new virus was first identified last ...
A food fraud scandal over horse meat sold as beef deepened Saturday as two companies at the center of the row took legal action and European governments said criminal activity is suspected. Frozen food giant Findus lodged a legal complaint in France after evidence ...
