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 ...
Mao Asada leads a Japanese sweep of the women's medals at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
The U.S. men and Russian women didn’t leave room for anyone else on the podium at the World Junior Figure ...
The podium at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships is turning into American territory. Samantha Cesario and Courtney Hicks finished ...
Mao Asada lands a triple axel and wins the women's short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Yuzuru Hanyu, the 2012 national champion, wins the men's short program with an impressive performance at the Four Continents.
"The level I am at now is the best for now, but I want to push myself even more looking toward the world championships," says the two-time world champion.
Reigning Grand Prix Final men’s figure skating champion Daisuke Takahashi said Saturday he plans on retiring after the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. “I think my amateur career will end with Sochi,” said the 26-year-old Takahashi, who took part in an ice dance exhibition the ...
Sixteen-year-old Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, the junior world championship runnerup and Youth Olympics winner, clinched her first Russian figure skating title on Thursday despite coming close to pulling out through injury. Tuktamysheva, who won with a personal best of 196.57 points, had complained of a foot ...
Yevgeny Plushenko overcame severe back pain to clinch his 10th Russian figure skating title on Wednesday on the same Sochi ice where the 2014 Winter Olympics will take place. Former triple world champion Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic gold medalist, who was leading the men’s ...
Russia’s 2006 Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko grabbed the lead in the men’s competition at the Russian figure skating championships on Tuesday at the venue in Sochi where he hopes to crown his career with a second Olympic title in 2014. The 30-year-old former three-time ...
Akiko Suzuki, who finished a disappointing fourth at the national championships over the weekend, announced on Monday that she would retire from competition after next season. The 27-year-old Suzuki, who will represent Japan at the world championships in March, could compete in the 2014 ...
