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 2 percent inflation target will produce positive effects in six to 12 months if the Bank of Japan continues to take appropriate measures toward that goal, says Koichi Hamada, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In a recent interview, the professor ...
Japan's controversial new economic policy emerged as one of the hot topics at this year's Davos forum, with talk of currency wars and strong rebuttals from Japanese officials.
Jens Weidmann, president of Germany’s central bank, has expressed concern about additional monetary easing steps taken by the Bank of Japan, citing it as an example of the government meddling in the central bank’s business. In a Monday speech posted on the Deutsche Bundesbank’s ...
The dollar briefly topped the ¥90 line Friday morning in Tokyo for the first time in more than 2½ years and the Nikkei 225 average climbed nearly 3 percent to a 32-month high as expectations strengthened that the Bank of Japan will implement drastic ...
The yen’s slide against major currencies since late last year is beginning to hit households in the pocket by raising prices of daily necessities. The average price of regular gasoline climbed ¥1.20 from a week earlier to ¥150 per liter as of Tuesday, a ...
