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 ...
Japan will play Bulgaria in a friendly on May 30 at Toyota Stadium, the Japan Football Association announced on Thursday. The match will serve as a warmup for the Asian champions’ final two qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup at home to Australia on ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima were brought back to earth with a thud on Wednesday as the J. League champions crashed to a 2-0 defeat at home to Uzbekistan’s Bunyodkor in their Group G opener in the Asian Champions League. Back in the ACL for the first ...
Swansea marked its centenary season by collecting its first major trophy, outclassing fourth-tier club Bradford to win the League Cup final 5-0 on Sunday. Nathan Dyer and Jonathan de Guzman scored twice, and Michu also netted at Wembley Stadium to secure the biggest victory ...
Nagoya Grampus manager Dragan Stojkovic insists he never considered quitting after a traumatic 2012 season for the former J. League champions, preferring instead to concentrate on reclaiming the crown over the coming campaign. Grampus went into last season with high expectations having missed out ...
Ryan Giggs marked his 999th match as a professional by scoring in another age-defying, influential display to help Manchester United go provisionally 15 points clear at the top of the English Premier League on Saturday. A late goal from the Welsh midfielder followed a ...
Bayern Munich seized on the uncertainty sweeping through Arsenal to claim a 3-1 victory in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 match on Tuesday, enhancing the German side’s status as one of the favorites for the title. Germany internationals Toni Kroos and ...
Chelsea broke Brentford’s resistance with a potent second-half attacking display to eliminate the third-tier club from the F.A. Cup at the second attempt with a 4-0 victory on Sunday, while Manchester City crushed Leeds by the same score. Held by Brentford three weeks ago, ...
Arsenal’s miserable season reached a new low on Saturday when the team was beaten 1-0 by second-tier Blackburn in the fifth round of the F.A. Cup, leaving manager Arsene Wenger facing an eighth straight season without silverware. Humiliated by fourth-tier Bradford in the League ...
After the ignominy of a premature demise from the Champions League as defending champion, Chelsea’s quest to win the Europa League began by gaining a slender advantage at Sparta Prague on Thursday. On another miserable night for striker Fernando Torres, who has scored once ...
Juventus punished poor defending with some clinical finishing to beat Celtic 3-0 in the first leg of their last-16 match in the Champions League on Tuesday, virtually sealing the Italian champions’ place in the quarterfinals. Mistakes by defender Efe Ambrose, who only returned from ...
The English Premier League trophy slipped further from Manchester City’s grasp after the champions lost 3-1 at Southampton on Saturday and gave Manchester United the opportunity to surge 12 points clear. City’s calamitous night on the south coast was summed up at the start ...
Yoshito Okubo is looking forward to a new challenge after joining Kawasaki Frontale ahead of the new J. League season, but the fiery forward is not about to tone down his style just because of a change in surroundings. Okubo arrived in Kanagawa last ...
