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 ...
Aspiring fisherman Cleo is quickly turning out to be something of a catch for Kashiwa Reysol. The newly signed Brazilian forward followed up his midweek Asian Champions League heroics with a double as Reysol kicked off their J. League campaign with a 3-1 thumping ...
Highlighting the top nine finishers from the J. League last season in the second part of this two-day preview.
Reigning J. League player of the year Hisato Sato lit up the Xerox Super Cup with a spectacular goal to give league champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima a 1-0 win over Emperor’s Cup holders Kashiwa Reysol in the 2013 season curtain-raiser on Saturday.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Hajime Moriyasu urges his team to forget last year’s historic J. League title triumph and start afresh in Saturday’s 2013 season curtain-raising Xerox Super Cup match against Kashiwa Reysol.
Former J. League champions Kashiwa Reysol avoided a potential banana skin and edged non-league Yokogawa Musashino 1-0 on Saturday to advance to the last eight of the Emperor’s Cup. Yokogawa had knocked out holders FC Tokyo en route to the fourth round and the ...
Nagoya Grampus checked Kashiwa Reysol’s rise up the J. League table with a 2-1 win over the surging defending champions on Saturday night. Reysol went into the game at National Stadium on the back of six wins from their last seven outings, and not ...
Kashiwa Reysol are slowly but surely returning to championship form as Nelsinho’s men edged Emperor’s Cup holders FC Tokyo 1-0 in a J. League makeup on Wednesday night. Defender Tatsuya Masushima bagged the lone goal of the game seconds before halftime as the reigning ...
Kashiwa Reysol’s season took another downward turn as three late goals from Yojiro Takahagi and Naoki Ishihara saw Sanfrecce Hiroshima condemn the champions to a crushing 5-2 home defeat in the J-League on Sunday. A Hisato Sato brace put Hiroshima in control but it ...
J. League leaders Vegalta Sendai preserved their unbeaten start to the season and took the defending champions’ scalp in the process with a 3-2 win over Kashiwa Reysol on Saturday. Vegalta twice took the lead only to be pegged back at Hitachi Stadium, with ...
J. League champion Kashiwa Reysol handed newly promoted FC Tokyo a reality check ahead of the new season with a 2-1 win in the Xerox Super Cup on Saturday. Tokyo went into the curtain-raising match at National Stadium full of confidence after winning its ...
It would take a Herculean effort for Kashiwa Reysol to match their 2011 achievements over the coming season, but the reigning J. League champions see no reason why they cannot raise the bar and go even higher. Reysol won their first league title last ...
Reigning champion Kashiwa Reysol will face Yokohama F. Marinos at home on the opening weekend of the 2012 season as the J. League released the fixtures for the upcoming campaign on Tuesday. Kashiwa, which became the first team in J. League history to win ...
