AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
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 ...
Daisuke Matsuzaka began his fight to make the opening day roster Sunday, pitching two scoreless innings in his first spring appearance for the Cleveland Indians. Under strong winds in the surprising cold against the Cincinnati Reds, Matsuzaka came on in the third, not allowing ...
A bloody sock worn by Curt Schilling while pitching for the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals was sold for $92,613 at a live auction on Saturday night at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion. Schilling had ...
Madison Bumgarner will follow Matt Cain in San Francisco’s starting rotation, though Giants manager Bruce Bochy says there will likely be some shuffling before the end of spring camp. “We can still tweak it,” Bochy said Friday. “I’ll keep saying that when I look ...
Former Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has been hired as the athletics director at Sacred Heart University. The Northeast Conference university in Fairfield, Connecticut, said Friday that Valentine’s appointment will be formally announced next Tuesday. Valentine was fired in October after just one ...
New York Yankees outfielders Curtis Granderson and Brett Gardner could be switching positions. Granderson worked out in left field Thursday and the speedy Gardner switched to center. “I think it has a chance to help us a little bit, but I’m not really sure,” ...
Joe Garagiola, the ballplayer-turned-announcer who was honored by the Hall of Fame for his on-air work, is ending his broadcast career after nearly six decades. The 87-year-old Garagiola said Wednesday that he’s retiring as a part-time television analyst for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He said ...
Bartolo Colon knew he had failed a drug test for about six weeks before he got hit with a 50-game suspension last season. He made several starts for the Oakland Athletics while knowing he probably wouldn’t participate in the pennant race. “I continued to ...
The game is supposed to be America’s national pastime, but the United States has not fared well in the World Baseball Classic. Joe Torre is putting his manager’s uniform back on to lead Team USA in this year’s competition, but he cautions that there ...
