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 ...
Highlighting the top nine finishers from the J. League last season in the second part of this two-day preview.
J. League clubs got off to a less than stellar start in the 2013 Asian Champions League on Tuesday as 2007 champions Urawa Reds lost 3-0 away to Guangzhou Evergrande while Vegalta Sendai failed to mark their continental debut with a victory, having to ...
J. League first-division side Urawa Reds announced Monday that they have agreed to terms with Sanfrecce Hiroshima defender Ryota Moriwaki. The 26-year-old Moriwaki played in 33 of Sanfrecce’s 34 league games this year and also for the new J1 champions in the recently completed ...
Brazilian midfielder Popo conjured up another last-gasp winner as former Asian club and J. League champions Urawa Reds dodged a bullet to move into the fourth round of the Emperor’s Cup on Wednesday with a 2-1 win against non-league Kamatamare Sanuki. Kamatamare, who play ...
Shimizu S-Pulse missed a golden opportunity to move into the J. League first division lead as Afshin Ghotbi’s side had yet another man sent off and went down 1-0 at the hands of Urawa Reds on Saturday. S-Pulse might have wrested first place from ...
Albirex Niigata prevented Urawa Reds from making up ground on the J.League’s leading pack with a 1-1 draw on Saturday. Reds went into the match at Saitama Stadium fourth in the table despite having taken only four points from their previous four games, and ...
Last year was one to forget for both Urawa Reds and Tomoaki Makino, but the national team defender believes 2012 will be a different story after joining the fallen Saitama giants on a season-long loan. Urawa, Japan’s best-supported team and J. League champions in ...
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 ...
J. League heavyweights Urawa Reds slipped into the relegation places with five matches remaining after a 1-0 derby-day defeat to Omiya Ardija on Saturday. Urawa, champion in 2006 and Japan’s best-supported club, went into the match at Saitama Stadium having fallen into the bottom ...
New Urawa Reds manager Zeljko Petrovic aims to emulate his friend and former international teammate Dragan Stojkovic by winning the J. League with the team he once played for — as long as the trigger-happy Saitama club has the patience to back him every ...
