The death toll from a blizzard that hit Hokkaido and the Tohoku region over the weekend has risen to nine, local police said Monday. The latest fatality as of Monday was Kuniko Jingi, 76, who was found collapsed under the snow on a road ...
Sleeping in. Breakfast in bed. Sunny brunches. Strolls in the park. Laid-back afternoon tea. Cocktails at sunset. Decadent late nights. Saturday — the word brings to mind a flurry of images associated with the first day of the weekend and the chances are, they ...
For the past year, Tokyo sixth-grader Manami has had dinner at home an average of four times a week. The rest of the time she has had to make do with a juku-ben, a boxed dinner prepared by her mother and consumed between classes ...
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, ...
Cuba overpowers China, winning 12-0 and advancing to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
The U.S. military plans to set up a base for drones in northwest Africa to bolster surveillance of al-Qaida’s affiliate in the region and allied Islamist extremists, a U.S. official said Monday. The base for the robotic, unmanned aircraft would likely be located in ...
Here’s a surprising fact: One Japanese in a hundred lives abroad. It’s surprising because so much is made lately of Japan’s growing insularity. Young people seem less interested than ever in studying overseas, and voters last month elected a new government whose platform includes ...
The United States issued new rules Thursday restricting the kind of high-risk home loans that led to millions losing their homes in the housing collapse and sparked the financial crisis. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) set regulations that forbid lenders from granting mortgages ...
A U.S. drone believed to be used for reconnaissance was recovered Monday in waters off the central Philippines, police and naval authorities said. Fishermen found the 3.6-meter-long drone floating off the island of Masbate and dragged it ashore, according to provincial police official Heriberto ...
Japan, the United States, European countries and other major developed economies refused to sign revised international telecommunication rules Friday, arguing they could allow authorities to regulate expression on the Internet. The revised regulations do not reflect common opinions among the 193 member states of ...
