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 ...
Yokozuna Harumafuji dispensed with Tochiozan with minimal fuss on Sunday, getting off to a crackerjack start on the opening day of the 2013 New Year Grand Sumo Tournament. Harumafuji, who is trying to rebound from a 9-6 debacle in his debut at sumo’s highest ...
If one thing is causing yokozuna Harumafuji to lose sleep, haunted by an eerie requiem, it is knowing that the powers that be would just as soon banish him from the ancient Japanese sport than have him disgrace the prized yokozuna rank. Entering only ...
The Nishonoseki stable, to which legendary yokozuna Taiho belonged, will close its doors upon the conclusion of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament, a source within the Japan Sumo Association said Wednesday. The current stablemaster, 64-year-old elder Nishonoseki, fell ill last autumn and has ...
1. Baruto — make or break This will be the big story at the Hatsu Basho starting on the 13th. The Estonian giant — 187 kg and 197 cm — lost his ozeki rank at last November’s tournament down in Fukuoka and only a ...
Shohozan joined sumo’s upper class for the first time as komusubi on Monday, when the Japan Sumo Association released its rankings for the Jan. 13-27 New Year Grand Sumo Tournament. Shohozan, who went 10-5 in November’s tumultuous Kyushu tournament, will be on the west ...
Hawaiian-born former yokozuna Musashimaru will inherit the Musashigawa name and open his own stable next year. The 41-year-old Koyo Musashimaru would become the second foreigner after former sekiwake Takamiyama (now Azumazeki) to have his own stable. Musashigawa, who is set to retire at 65 ...
In the days leading up to the Nov. 11-25 Kyushu Basho in Fukuoka, much of the talk in sumo circles centered on the ozeki trio of Baruto, Kotoshogiku and the forever injured Kotooshu being able to maintain their rank come the January tournament back ...
A night after winning his first championship in four meets, yokozuna Hakuho was only beginning to savor the sweet taste of victory. Hakuho, who won the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament for the sixth time in a row with his first title since the Spring ...
