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 ...
For the first time since the New Deal, a majority of Americans are headed toward a retirement in which they will be financially worse off than their parents, jeopardizing a long era of improved living standards for the nation’s elderly, according to a growing ...
In a school hallway, a teacher takes her students to the library, leading a single-file line of giggling boys and girls that is perfectly ordinary — until you get to a sleek white robot with a video screen showing the face of a smiling, ...
President Barack Obama on Thursday rolled out a plan to vastly expand government-funded early childhood education in Georgia but kept the price secret. Obama has raised hopes among parents who want preschool for all. But Republicans are wary of high costs and have made ...
Six pregnant Asian women stroll across a road in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Two others cross the road in the opposite direction. In a nearby store, around 10 such women compare baby clothing. Nearby, a string of “maternity hotels” — where Asian women, ...
“I think my friends are a little jealous, because I’ve got two mommies and two daddies and they’ve only got two parents,” said Simon, 6, squirming with his 3-year-old brother, Joaquin, on the knees of their four gay parents. While Britain and France in ...
The before and after photos of Anna Grodzka show how much she — and her country — have transformed. As a man, she once wore a thick beard. Now Poland’s first transsexual lawmaker favors big dangly earrings, her hair in a bob. Grodzka attracted ...
Ireland’s government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor and usually against their will, a fact-finding report concluded Tuesday, establishing state involvement in the country’s infamous Magdalene Laundries for the first time. But ...
To the delight of gay activists, France’s National Assembly on Saturday overwhelmingly approved a key piece of legislation that will allow homosexual couples to marry and adopt children. Deputies voted 249-97 in favor of Article One of the draft law, which redefines marriage as ...
She was an English language tutor with an easy smile and an independent streak. He was a gym receptionist who wanted to better himself. They met for English lessons, swapped views on life and fell in love. Three months ago, a notary married them ...
Near the entrance of York High School in northern England, painted in large letters, are the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” It is not a bad motto, particularly for a school that prides itself ...
South African mining billionaire Patrice Motsepe announced Wednesday he would give half of his family’s fortune to charity, becoming the first African to match a pledge made by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. The Soweto-born tycoon, worth an estimated $2.7 billion, announced he would ...
Polish is the second-most-spoken language in England and Wales, new figures from the 2011 census revealed on Wednesday, followed by Punjabi and Urdu. Over 92 percent of residents spoke English as their main language, and the majority of the rest spoke it well, although ...
