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 ...
Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dead, including 10 Japanese, is killed in northern Mali.
Kevin Tsujihara spends most of his time in backroom meetings, away from the red carpets and spotlights for which the ...
President Barack Obama takes the most specific steps of his administration in an attempt to ensure the election of a ...
Concerned about Egypt’s political instability and the U.S. budget crunch, a growing number of American lawmakers are challenging the wisdom of providing $1.3 billion a year in military aid to Cairo, arguing that the policy is overdue for a wholesale review. Lawmakers say that ...
Researchers steering a remote-controlled submarine around the world’s deepest known hydrothermal vents have collected numerous samples from sunless depths of the Caribbean Sea where blazing hot, mineral-rich fluid gushes from volcanic chimneys that look like gnarled tree stumps. Jon Copley, chief scientist for the ...
When is someone too stoned to drive? The answer, it turns out, has been anything but simple in Colorado, which last fall became one of the first states in the United States to legalize marijuana. Prosecutors and some lawmakers have long pushed for laws ...
Well-known political opposition figures stayed away from meetings with visiting Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday, some for fear of appearing too close to the U.S. in the still-unsettled politics of Egypt two years after the fall of a U.S.-backed dictator. Kerry encouraged ...
In his first interview since losing his 2012 White House bid, Mitt Romney likened his experience as a presidential candidate to an unpredictable ride. “We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs. But the ride ends,” Romney said, according to ...
President Barack Obama has appointed a new coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Persian Gulf, the White House announced Saturday. Philip Gordon, a veteran foreign policy expert, will take up his post on March 11. The appointment came two weeks before ...
Most people who have done time in jail can’t wait to get out. But New York City authorities have accused one former inmate of sneaking back in. Yonkers resident Matthew Matagrano, 36, was arraigned in Manhattan on Saturday on charges that he impersonated a ...
Is this what Michelle Obama looks like untethered to the pressure of a campaign? Is she free to follow her whims without worries about political backlash? The first lady became the buzz of the Oscars weekend when she beamed into the Academy Awards from ...
Iran and Syria condemned a U.S. plan to assist rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad on Saturday and signaled the Syrian leader intends to stay in power at least until 2014 presidential elections. The remarks came against the backdrop of a strategic victory ...
Just a few salient facts are known about the Americans whose lives might be changed by a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage expected this summer. About 1 in 5 gay and lesbian couples are raising children that are under age 18. Same-sex couples ...
Violent ethnic riots have rattled Macedonia’s capital, culminating on Saturday with hundreds raging through the city center, clashing with police, overturning cars and attacking a bus station. At least 22 people were injured, 13 of them police officers. Ethnic Macedonians kicked off the protests ...
Millions of Bulgarians and Romanians on Friday observed a centuries-old regional custom, handing out spring charms to loved ones as they do every March 1. The charms, called “Martenitsi” — from the Bulgarian word for March — in their simplest form are red-and-white woolen ...
