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 ...
Akira Miyasada drives his Kobe-registered car along the deserted beaches in the Ogatsu district of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, stopping to speak with locals and listen carefully to their stories from the devastating March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. He hears accounts of loss, damage ...
Two U.S. sailors were given prison terms of nine and 10 years on Friday for raping and injuring a Japanese woman in her 20s in Okinawa in October. A panel of three professional and six lay judges at the Naha District Court handed a ...
As the world rushed to condemn North Korea for its nuclear test, the political shock waves rippled into the daily lives of ethnic Korean children living in Japan. Amid the clamor for an effective way to punish a Pyongyang leadership that has proved immune ...
A 17-year-old Romanian in custody admitted Friday that he was involved in the robbery-slaying of a woman on a street in Tokyo’s Kichijoji area and was promptly served an arrest warrant for the crime, police said, adding they are also looking for his 18-year-old ...
A New York Police Department patrol car responding to an emergency call struck and killed a 24 year-old Japanese man in Queens shortly after midnight Feb. 21, the victim’s family said. According to a personal briefing from the police, Ryo Oyamada from Kagawa Prefecture ...
Regional legal affairs bureaus responded to a record 3,988 school bullying cases last year, up 20.6 percent from 2011, the Justice Ministry announced Friday. The findings come amid heightened attention on the issue following the 2011 suicide of a junior high school student who ...
The Cabinet approved a bill Friday that would introduce a numbering system giving everyone integrated access to their own tax, pension and medical benefit data. The “my number” bill has won the backing of the Democratic Party of Japan as well as the Liberal ...
The Independence Hall of Korea started holding classes Thursday to teach about a pair of South Korean-held islets at the heart of a bitter sovereignty row with Japan. Some 3,000 people, including elementary school students, their family members and tourists, are expected to attend ...
A movie theater in Tokyo will screen a movie with English narration and subtitles Tuesday in which 37 pupils, teachers and parents talk about their experience of the March 2011 quake-tsunami that destroyed Kadonowaki Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The film, “Living Through ...
The government will allow Japanese companies to take part in the manufacture of parts for F-35 fighter jet as an exception to the nation's ban exporting weapons.
The government will permit the restart of more nuclear reactors if their safety is confirmed, economic revitalization minister Akira Amari said Thursday. He made the remark in a meeting in Tokyo with Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Shosuke Mori, who asked that idled reactors be ...
The “miracle pine” that survived the massive March 2011 tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, is 173 years old, the local municipal office said. The 27-meter-tall pine, which also survived major tsunami in 1896 and 1933, had been thought by some local people to be ...
