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 ...
Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic remained unbeaten this year by routing Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-0, 6-3 as the top four seeds powered into the semifinals of the Dubai Championships on Thursday. Defending champion Roger Federer defeated Nikolay Davydenko 6-2, 6-2. Djokovic will play fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro, who ...
Novak Djokovic came from a break down in the first set to win his fourth Dubai Championships title in five ...
Tomas Berdych saved three match points before beating defending champion Roger Federer 3-6, 7-6 (10-8), 6-4 Friday to set up ...
The planned renovation of Roland Garros is on hold after a Paris tribunal on Friday sided with local residents who complained the development could harm the environment. The home of the French Open is undergoing an expansion that was scheduled to be completed in ...
Fourth-seed Kei Nishikori retired in the first set of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships on Tuesday due to a nagging left oblique injury. Nishikori, coming off his third career victory at the U.S. National Indoor Championships in Memphis last week, was about to ...
Roger Federer rallied past Tunisian wild card Malek Jaziri 5-7, 6-0, 6-2 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the Dubai Championships. The second-ranked Federer is looking for his sixth title in Dubai. He next faces Albert Montanes or Marcel Granollers. Federer was ...
Kei Nishikori beats Feliciano Lopez in the final of the U.S. National Indoor Championships for his third career title.
Former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova won her first title in six months when she beat Sara Errani 6-2, 1-6, 6-1 in the Dubai Championships final on Saturday. Kvitova also beat the Italian en route to her previous title — her ninth — in New ...
Kei Nishikori was walking past Marinko Matosevic, ready to switch ends after winning the first set 6-4. The Australian stopped him near the umpire’s chair. Matosevic couldn’t continue, not with a bone bruise in his right foot making each step simply too painful. Matosevic ...
Former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova overpowered Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 6-4 on Friday to reach the final of the Dubai Championships. She will next play Sara Errani of Italy, who defeated her doubles partner Roberta Vinci 6-3, 6-3. “She has a good forehand with a ...
Kei Nishikori defeated American Donald Young in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals of the U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships on Thursday. Fifth-seeded Nishikori, who is playing in his first tournament since reaching the last 16 of the Australian Open in January, won ...
