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 ...
The lack of any hint of the atrocities carried out at the Lubyanka building, particularly at the height of Josef Stalin's purges, symbolizes the ambivalent way in which Russia remembers the tyrant.
A campaign of insinuation and insult has targeted Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and in a country where all power flows from the top downward, his boss, President Vladimir Putin, has done nothing all winter to stop it. Medvedev’s failings get an airing in the ...
Migrants, whose pay typically provides for their entire families back home, complain that Russian contractors are cheating them and withholding their wages.
French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has announced he wants to quit his homeland to avoid higher taxes, said Thursday he was pleased after President Vladimir Putin granted him Russian citizenship. The decision appears to give Depardieu, a frequent guest of the Moscow celebrity circuit, ...
French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has announced he wants to quit his homeland to avoid higher taxes, said Thursday he was pleased after President Vladimir Putin granted him Russian citizenship. The decision appears to give Depardieu, a frequent guest of the Moscow celebrity circuit, ...
Hold the Botox! The latest rumors swirling around the Kremlin suggest Vladimir Putin needs a makeover, dropping his macho, macho man refrain in favor of some crinkly-eyed gravitas. Putin’s usual sky-high ratings have been slipping, the people around him are constantly pestered with questions ...
Moscow AFP-JIJI Stark divisions within Russia’s elite were exposed Monday when a hot-mic mishap showed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev slamming security forces as “jerks” for launching an early morning raid against a filmmaker. Medvedev gave an extensive end-of-year interview Friday to five Russian channels ...
