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 quest of the International Sumo Federation (IFS) to have amateur sumo accepted as a bona fide Olympic sport has long been viewed as as a pie-in-the-sky proposition by many. In the wake of the recent IOC decision to drop the far more recognized sport ...
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 the 2020 Summer Games, but the final decision will be made at the assembly ...
The Japan Wrestling Federation launched an online petition site to keep wrestling in the Olympics on Monday with the aim of submitting 100,000 signatures to the International Olympic Committee. The website, titled “Save Olympic Wrestling,” can be accessed in several languages. The federation plans ...
In a rare gesture of goodwill, members of the U.S. freestyle wrestling team shook hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday after finishing third in a tournament. Iran and the U.S. have found a common ground in wrestling lately after the sport was ...
FILA named three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida as a candidate Sunday to sit on a female committee that will be established as the world wrestling governing body aims to retain the sport for the 2020 Summer Games. In an effort to modernize the sport ...
The world governing body for wrestling on Saturday ousted its president, Raphael Martinetti, amid fallout from the International Olympic Committee’s controversial axing of wrestling as a core sport for the 2020 Summer Games. According to FILA vice president Tomiaki Fukuda, Martinetti was issued a ...
Facing a wave of criticism from around the world, IOC President Jacques Rogge will meet with the head of wrestling’s governing body to discuss ways the ancient sport can fight to save its place in the Olympics. The IOC executive board dropped wrestling from ...
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.
