South Korean Island Grows Wary After Welcoming the Chinese
DAEJEONG, South Korea — Not far from Shin Yong-kyun’s strawberry farm are the crumbling remains of an airfield that Japanese colonialists built in the 1930s, to launch air raids against…
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WATCH: Little Mix Secretly Drops a New Music Video and Song, ‘Dreamin’ Together’
Little Mix is coming out with another album this year, but Mixers now have an extra-special treat because the band secretly released a music video for their new song, “Dreamin’…
Japanese Photographers React To The Tragic Aftermath Of Japan’s ‘Triple Disaster’
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m., two tectonic plates at the bottom of the Japanese Trench slipped. The bump was like nothing the area had felt before. The Tohoku…
Honda, Grappling With Quality Problems, Is to Replace Its President
TOKYO — Honda Motor said on Monday that it would replace its president and chief executive, Takanobu Ito, a move that some interpreted as an attempt to draw a line…
Honda Replaces President Takanobu Ito Following Air Bag Defect Scandal
Honda Motor Co., the Japanese automaker at the center of an air-bag defect scandal, said Monday its president Takanobu Ito will step aside and be replaced by another Honda executive….
Security Guards Detain 3 Protesters at Gate of Marine Base on Okinawa
TOKYO — Three protesters were detained at the gate of a United States Marine base on Okinawa on Sunday during the largest demonstration yet against the start of construction of…
Security Guards Detain 3 Protesters at Gate of Marine Base on Okinawa
TOKYO — Three protesters were detained at the gate of a United States Marine base on Okinawa on Sunday during the largest demonstration yet against the start of construction of…
Japan Makes a Quick Exit From Its Latest Recession
TOKYO — Japan’s latest recession was as short as it was unexpected. The Japanese economy, the world’s third-largest, started expanding again at the end of 2014, government data showed Monday,…
Japan Is Considering Making Vacation Mandatory. The U.S. Should, Too
Japan wants to cut off its workaholics, and America could learn a thing or two from the proposal. A measure slated to come before Japan’s parliament sometime in the next…
How to eat sushi
With your fingers? Chopsticks? Dipped into soy sauce? Daubed with wasabi? One mouthful or two? The only certainty, it seems, is that its proper consumption demands both etiquette and practicality….
Ultimate Japan Wagyu beef guide
But other than knowing that it tastes great and costs a lot, many tourists turn up with little knowledge of what to expect from Japanese beef. Considered the caviar of…
Japan confiscates passport of journalist planning to travel to Syria
It’s the first time the Japanese government has taken such a step. But the journalist, Yuichi Sugimoto, has suggested it’s a breach of his rights. “Ministry officials and police officers…
George Takei To Make Broadway Debut In ‘Allegiance’ Musical About Japanese-American Internment Camp
“Star Trek” icon and outspoken lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocate George Takei is Broadway-bound. The 77-year-old star will make his debut on the Great White Way in…
When Buddhists were Public Enemy No. 1
Yet it might also serve as a reminder that a religion now considered universally benign once endured suspicion, vocal protest and even government surveillancemuch as Islam has in recent years….
How Japan’s Moerenuma Park sums up the life of its creator
Two perfectly geometric hills rise from the pancake-flat landscape, trees planted in rows form a circular copse, while a glass and steel pyramid looms nearby and three huge stainless steel…
Jordan waits, Japan mourns after ISIS apparently beheads journalist
He apparently became the latest foreigner killed by ISIS after a video distributed Saturday appears to show his beheaded body. A week earlier, another video had shown Goto holding a…
‘A beautiful life’: The Australian woman who became a geisha
It could be a scene from a print by 19th century Japanese artist Hokusai, but behind the evocative image is a modern story. Leading the four through the snows of…
5 things to know for your New Day — Monday, February 2
WINTER WEATHER Here we go again, Northeast: As the Midwest remains buried in snow, millions will wake up Monday to sleet and blizzard conditions in the East Coast — the…
Japan: ‘We will never, never forgive’ ISIS for apparent beheading
But in doing so, Kenji Goto suffered his own gruesome fateapparently becoming the latest foreigner to be decapitated by ISIS. A newly distributed video from ISIS appears to show the…
Islamic State Militants Say They Killed 2nd Japanese Hostage
AMMAN, Jordan — The Islamic State claimed to have beheaded a Japanese journalist in a video released Saturday night, culminating a two-week-long drama that appears to have cost the lives…
ISIS Releases Video Purporting To Show Execution Of Kenji Goto
The AP and other outlets reported that ISIS released a video on Saturday that appeared to show the execution of Japanese reporter Kenji Goto, who had been held by the…
One killed, 2 injured on set of Martin Scorsese’s movie ‘Silence’
Scorsese’s new feature, “Silence,” tells the story of two Jesuit priests in 17th century Japan and the travails of Japanese Christians at the time, according to IMDb. – CNN’s Chieu…
How ISIS’ new hostage strategy is shifting the goalposts
Three of the prisoners ISIS apparently wants back are womena failed suicide bomber, an alleged bomb maker and a woman tied to the head of ISIS. The fourth is a…
Should U.S. pay ransoms?
The terrible ordeal facing the Japanese and Jordanian governments in the wake of ISIS threats to execute a captured Jordanian pilot and a second Japanese national raises critical questions about…
Remember ‘The Great Raid’ of 1945
It doesn’t come to mind as quickly as the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II draws near. September 2, 1945. The day the Japanese formally surrendered in…
Purported ISIS message sets ‘sundown’ deadline for terrorist release
Authorities are to bring convicted terrorist Sajida al-Rishawi to the Turkish border by 5:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET), or Jordanian ISIS hostage Moaz al-Kassasbeh will be executed “immediately.” Jordan has…
All-but-Forgotten Prisoner in Jordan Is Suddenly at Center of Swap Demand by ISIS
AMMAN, Jordan — During the nine years that Sajida al-Rishawi, 46, has been sitting in self-imposed solitary confinement in her cell at the Juweidah Women’s Prison here in Jordan, refusing…
Pleas from families of hostages held by ISIS as deadline nears
The post shows an image of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto holding a picture that appears to be of Moaz al-Kassasbeh, the pilot captured by ISIS last month after his jet…
Secret Talks In Jordan Try To Win Release Of Hostages
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed outrage and demanded Wednesday that Islamic State extremists release a Japanese journalist, as secret talks in Jordan sought the release of the Japanese and…
New ISIS Video Appears To Show Japanese Hostage Kenji Goto
Senior Japanese officials are meeting to try to authenticate a new video purporting to show Japanese ISIS hostage Kenji Goto, Reuters reports. The new video reportedly features a picture of…