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 ...
South Korea’s decision to support a United Nations investigation into human rights abuses by North Korea signals that Seoul’s new conservative administration is willing to pressure its neighbor on such issues — even if it hurts the chances for engagement. South Korea’s pledge Wednesday ...
A U.N. commission on Monday said fighters on both sides in Syria’s civil war have committed atrocities and should be brought to justice. The 131-page report issued Monday detailed deepening radicalization by both sides, who increasingly see the war in sectarian terms and rely ...
North Korea stages its most powerful nuclear test yet, claiming a technological breakthrough with a "miniaturized" device in a striking act of defiance to global powers, including its sole patron, China.
Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, targeting a convoy believed to contain antiaircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The attack — the first since 2007 — adds a potentially flammable new element to tensions already heightened by ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday congratulated Self-Defense Forces personnel involved in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Israeli-held Golan Heights during a ceremony at the Defense Ministry. The SDF began pulling its 47 soldiers out of the area in late December after being ...
Government-level talks began Sunday at the United Nations in Geneva on forming an international treaty to regulate mercury trading and prevent environmental and health problems arising from the toxic substance. Government representatives from more than 140 countries are participating in the talks to craft ...
The United Nations, looking to modernize its peacekeeping operations, is planning for the first time to deploy a fleet of its own surveillance drones in missions in Central and West Africa. The U.N. Department of Peacekeeping has notified Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic ...
United Nations AFP-JIJI The United Nations is sending chemical weapons kits to U.N. troops in the Golan Heights because of growing fears over Syria’s deadly unconventional arsenal, officials said Monday. U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous briefed the U.N. Security Council on efforts to bolster ...
