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 ...
Louis Luyt, the former head of the South African Rugby Union who presided over the Springboks’ return to international rugby and their victory at the 1995 World Cup has died. He was 80. SARU said Luyt, a former player, administrator, newspaper proprietor, businessman and ...
Defending Top League champions Suntory Sungoliath carried their unbeaten record into the playoff final with a come-from-behind 38-19 semifinal win over Kobe Kobelco Steelers on Saturday. After winning all 13 league games during the regular season, Sungoliath trailed 19-9 at the break with all ...
Gay rights advocates in New Zealand have called for a homosexual All Blacks player to openly declare his sexuality and act as a role model in the fight against bigotry. Broadcaster Steve Gray told the Sunday Star-Times that he was aware there had been ...
Kyodo Kintetsu Liners missed out on a spot in the Top League rugby playoffs after losing 13-10 to NTT Communication Shining Arcs at Prince Chichibu Memorial Ground on Saturday. Kintetsu, in seventh place and needing victory to stay in the hunt for a top-four ...
Kobe Kobelco Steelers locked up a place in the playoffs to determine the Top League rugby champion Sunday despite going down to their first defeat of the season. The Steelers lost 29-27 to Toshiba Brave Lupus, but Yuta Imamura’s superb individual try two minutes ...
Talismanic All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has been named New Zealand’s player of the year for the fourth time. At an awards ceremony on Friday night, McCaw beat Kieran Read and Conrad Smith for the top accolade which he previously won in 2003, 2006 ...
Panasonic Wild Knights kept up their good form of late with a 65-7 thrashing of NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes at Ota Sports Park on Sunday. Even without a number of their big name players, the Wild Knights were simply too good for the visitors, ...
Panasonic Wild Knights got what is in all likelihood the post-Sonny Bill Williams era off to a winning start when they beat Toyota Verblitz 40-17 at Ota Sports Park on Sunday. The inside word from the Panasonic camp is that the injured former All ...
