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 ...
Keiko Fukuda, the first woman to earn a ninth-dan ranking in judo from the Kodokan, died at her home in San Francisco on Saturday at the age of 99. Born in April 1913, Fukuda’s grandfather was a practitioner of jujutsu and one of the teachers of Jigoro Kano, who is ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee said Tuesday it has debriefed at least 11 of the 15 female judo wrestlers who lodged ...
The All Japan Judo Federation announced on Thursday the formation of a third-party advisory committee to handle crisis management in ...
Megumi Tachimoto won the women's over-78 kilogram gold medal on the final day of the Paris Grand Slam on Sunday.
Shohei Ono staged an upset against London Olympic silver medalist Riki Nakaya to win the men’s 73-kg final on the second day of the Tokyo Grand Slam on Saturday. A day after Japan pulled off a gold-medal sweep of the medals, representatives from the ...
Two-time world champion Haruna Asami scored an ippon against Dayaris Mestre Alvarez of Cuba in the women’s 48-kg final on Friday, successfully defending her crown to lead a gold-medal sweep for the host nation on the opening day at the Tokyo Grand Slam. In ...
Two-time world champion Haruna Asami defeated Miri Toda to win the women’s 48-kilogram final at the All-Japan judo weight-class championships on Sunday. Asami, who missed out on a spot at the London Olympics this past summer despite winning her second consecutive world title, won ...
Kosei Inoue has been named as coach of the Japan men’s judo team, the All Japan Judo Federation announced Monday, while Ryuji Sonoda has been kept on as women’s coach. Inoue, the 100-kg gold medalist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, replaces Shinichi Shinohara, whose ...
Former Olympic gold medalist Kosei Inoue will take over as head coach of the men’s national judo team from Shinichi Shinohara, who has been under fire for the country’s recent string of lackluster performances, Kyodo News learned on Wednesday. A source with the All ...
Megumi Tachimoto scored a decisive victory over Qin Qian as Japan defeated China 3-2 to win the women’s title at the judo team world championships on Saturday. Fielding a team weakened by the absence of London Olympians, Japan took a 2-0 lead thanks to ...
Judoka Misato Nakamura, who failed to live up to her gold medal expectations and made an early exit in the women’s 52-kg competition at the London Olympics, will take an extended break from the sport for treatment on her left knee, judo sources said ...
