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 ...
Auckland City’s colorful cast of part-timers have no problem with their underdog status ahead of their Club World Cup clash against Sanfrecce Hiroshima, but striker Manel Exposito has warned the Japanese champions to be ready for a fight in the playoff opener on Thursday. ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima may have had to wait until the J. League’s 20th season before winning their first piece of silverware, but after clinching the championship with a resounding win in front of a home crowd on Saturday, the achievement will taste all the sweeter. ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima won their first J. League title on Saturday with a 4-1 victory over Cerezo Osaka, coupled by second-place Vegalta Sendai’s 1-0 defeat at home to relegation-threatened Albirex Niigata. With one match left in the 2012 season, Sanfrecce have 61 points after the ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima maintained a wafer-thin advantage in the J. League title race despite losing 2-0 to Urawa Reds on Saturday, as Vegalta Sendai closed the gap at the top to one point with two games of the season left to play. Sanfrecce went into ...
The 2012 title race has been one of the most open in J. League history, but with only three games of the season left to play, the championship contenders have finally been whittled down to two. Urawa Reds and Nagoya Grampus still maintain a ...
J. League top scorer Hisato Sato plans to let Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni know what the Italian has been missing during his two years in charge in the upcoming friendlies against France and Brazil. “To be perfectly honest, given my age, I thought I ...
League leaders Vegalta Sendai fell to a shock 2-1 defeat to bottom-of-the-table Consadole Sapporo on Saturday through a last-minute own goal, leaving Sanfrecce Hiroshima to take advantage with a 2-1 win at Omiya Ardija to climb back to the top of the J. League. ...
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 ...
Urawa Reds have hired former Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Milhailo Petrovic as the new manager of the J. League first division club, sources familiar with the deal said Wednesday. The 54-year-old Austrian took charge at Hiroshima in June 2006 and after the team was relegated ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima said Wednesday they will not offer manager Mihailo Petrovic a contract for next season. Hiroshima are in eighth place in the J. League first division with three matches left in the season under the 54-year-old Austrian manager. They have a 12-11 record ...
