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 ...
As China and Japan bicker over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, Yeap Swee Chuan is benefiting. Yeap is president and chief executive officer of Aapico Hitech, a Thai auto parts maker that supplies Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. as ...
A U.S.-trained human rights lawyer has been released early from a Vietnamese prison even as the communist government intensifies its crackdown on activists and bloggers it sees as challenging one-party rule. Le Cong Dinh was freed Wednesday for his “good abidance by prison rules,” ...
A Vietnamese-American prodemocracy activist returned to the United States on Wednesday after a 9-month detention in Vietnam on accusations he conspired to overthrow its government. Nguyen Quoc Quan smiled broadly as he was greeted by his wife, children and other family members who came ...
Hanoi AFP-JIJI Communist Party leaders gathered in Hanoi Friday to mark the 40th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, the culmination of painstaking talks that eventually ended America’s direct military involvement in Vietnam. Thousands of people attended the ceremony in the country’s capital to ...
Posters of U.S. bombers crashing in flames festoon Hanoi to mark another anniversary in a long-finished war. But behind the usual propaganda Vietnam’s rulers face a modern-day threat — anger over the economy. For years the leaders of the one-party state have relied on ...
