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 ...
World silver medalist Aya Terakawa strolled through the preliminaries of the women’s 100-meter backstroke, taking a time of 1 minute, .28 seconds into the semifinals of the national championships Wednesday. Terakawa, who medaled for her first time at last year’s world championships in Shanghai ...
Kosuke Kitajima completed a double with a victory in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke in a U.S. swimming Grand Prix series meet Saturday. The two-time double Olympic champion touched the wall in 2 minutes, 10.35 seconds, adding to his win in the 100 the previous ...
Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima won the 100 meters in a U.S. swimming Grand Prix series meet Friday. The Japanese star touched the wall in 1 minute, 0.13 seconds as part of his warmup for the Olympic qualifying national championships in Tokyo ...
Ryo Tateishi laid down the gauntlet to two-time double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima after obliterating the field in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke at the national short-course championships on Sunday. Tateishi, who broke Kitajima’s record in the 100 breaststroke a day earlier, won in 2 ...
Comeback kid Tomoko Hagiwara continued her resurgence in the pool as the Sydney Olympian won the women’s 50-meter freestyle in a Japan record at the national short-course championships Saturday. Two months ahead of the Japanese qualifiers for London, Hagiwara, who turns 32 in April, ...
Swimmer Haruka Ueda set a new national record in the women’s 100-meter freestyle at the Tokyo championships Sunday. Ueda touched the wall at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in 54.33 seconds. She bettered the mark of Misaki Yamaguchi, who timed 54.43 in one of ...
Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima won his first race of 2012 in taking the 200 meters at a time-trials meet in Fullerton, California, on Sunday. Kitajima topped the heats before clocking a mediocre time of 1 minute, 58.80 seconds in the 25-yard ...
