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 ...
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 ...
Yoriko Kunihara, a two-time world bronze medalist in the women’s 70-kg class, said Saturday she is retiring from competitive judo. Kunihara, who won bronze medals at the worlds in Tokyo in 2010 and the following year in Paris but failed to qualify for the ...
Keiji Suzuki suffered a setback in his bid for a spot in the London Olympics after losing in the semifinals at the hands of unheralded Georgian Adam Okruashvili in the men’s over-100-kg class on the final day of the Judo Grand Prix Dusseldorf on ...
Haruka and Megumi Tachimoto struck gold at the Paris Judo Grand Slam on Sunday, winning the women’s 70-kg and 78-kg divisions, respectively. Haruka, the younger of the Tachimoto sisters and ranked fourth in the weight class, stunned France’s Lucie Decosse by decision 2-1 after ...
Tomoko Fukumi continued to build her case for this summer’s London Olympics, outclassing Brazil’s Sarah Menezes in the 48-kg final to win the Grand Slam Paris judo title on Saturday. Fukumi, who defeated Haruna Asami for the World Masters title last month after losing ...
