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 ...
The head of Istanbul’s bid for the 2020 Olympics hopes a winning vote coincides with wrestling’s reinstatement. The International Olympic Committee executive board voted this month to drop wrestling from ...
International Olympic Academy (IOA) president Isidoros Kouvelos on Wednesday called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to respect the historical roots of the Olympics and not remove wrestling from the ...
The Tokyo Olympic bid committee held a commemorative event Tuesday to mark 200 days before the vote to decide the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The event was ...
After a series of scandals that have rocked the sports world in recent weeks, the Japanese Olympic Committee is working ...
Facing a wave of criticism from around the world, IOC President Jacques Rogge will meet with the head of wrestling’s ...
Japan Wrestling Federation President Tomiaki Fukuda on Wednesday called into question the International Olympic Committee’s decision to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games, saying the sport’s governing body has failed to give “clear reasons” for why wrestling is being removed. Fukuda said the fight ...
The IOC's decision stuns Japan, which collected six wrestling medals at the 2012 London Games.
A South Korean soccer player who displayed a political banner at the London Olympics will get his bronze medal back, the IOC announced Tuesday. Park Jong Woo was issued with just a warning for his actions after his team’s 2-0 victory over Japan, the ...
In the wake of claims of physical and verbal abuse made by national women’s judo team members, a Kyodo News survey on Sunday found that training staff in two additional sports admitting knowing of physical abuse. In a questionnaire distributed to coaches and development ...
London Olympic organizers say they remain on course to break even on their operating budget. Local organizing committee LOCOG, forecasts total revenue and expenditure will both be £2.4 billion ($3.8 billion). The privately financed LOCOG budget, which covers the running of the games, is ...
Removing a sport from the Olympics is one of the IOC’s most sensitive tasks. After months of evaluation, a decision will come next week. The century-old competition of modern pentathlon appears the most at risk. The IOC executive board will meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, ...
Mike Krzyzewski said London was going to be the last time. Well, maybe not. There’s still a chance Krzyzewski will return for a third stint as U.S. Olympic men’s basketball coach, two people familiar with the situation said. Krzyzewski said he was through with ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee announced Friday that the representatives of all 31 Olympic sports federations it questioned over two days said no abuse exists within their organizations at the national level. The questioning was the first step in an investigation by the JOC into ...
