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 ...
Rory McIlroy put a new putter in his bag and a new shaft in his driver. He has no way of knowing whether that means his second tournament of the year will last any longer than his first one. The world’s No. 1 player ...
John Merrick hit two clutch shots to win a sudden-death playoff and claim the Northern Trust Open on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory, in his home city. On the second playoff hole, Merrick saved par while Charlie Beljan missed a 5-foot par ...
South Korea’s Jiyai Shin won the Australian Women’s Golf Open by two shots Sunday, finishing with a 1-under 72 to beat world No. 1 Yani Tseng after being tied for the overnight lead with teenage star Lydia Ko. Shin mixed three birdies with two ...
Ryo Ishikawa shot an even-par 71 on Saturday to head into the final round in a tie for 58th at the Northern Trust Open. The 21-year-old Ishikawa, who made the cut for the first time this season on Friday, had an up-and-down round that ...
Sweden’s Fredrik Jacobson birdied the two toughest holes at Riviera on his way to a 6-under 65 on Friday and a share of the lead with Bae Sang Moon after two rounds of the Northern Trust Open. Jacobson and South Korea’s Bae were at ...
Brandt Snedeker ran off four straight birdies along the prettiest part of Pebble Beach and wound up tied for the lead with rookie James Hahn in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Snedeker had his ninth consecutive round in the 60s. One more and he ...
Hunter Mahan was bracing for the worst of Pebble Beach, his golf bag weighed down with rain gear and everything else to handle nasty weather. Instead, he was reminded how much he loves this place. It helps that Mahan drilled a 3-wood onto the ...
Phil Mickelson completed a wire-to-wire victory in the Phoenix Open on Sunday, again flirting with history in a dominating run at TPC Scottsdale. Mickelson shot a 4-under 67 to finish at 28-under 256, two strokes off the PGA Tour record of 254 set by ...
