Surge in groping on Tokyo trains
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Reported incidents of sexual assault on Tokyo's trains reach a record high, with 2,201 cases last year.
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There was an eclectic crowd inside North Station during rush hour last night, though many of those moving about were hardly concerned with the voice over the loudspeaker as it barked instructions for which train on which track was headed to which bucolic town. Nor were many of these fast-walking folks interested in a pamphlet being handed out by a ...
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The future of retail sales in Japan can   be seen on its trains -- on which 60 million people travel   every day with many of them glued to their mobile phones.
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TOKYOâFrom submarines to soccer and sex, everything seems to bedevil Japan-China relations these days. And with growing perceptions in Tokyo and Beijing of a military threat from
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Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China
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A congressional resolution on women forced into prostitution by the Japanese military highlights Tokyo's evasion
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Furor over the issue of war-era sex slaves highlighted yet again Japanâs unresolved history in the region.
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Japan expressed outrage on Friday after anti-whaling activists poured acid on the decks of a whaling ship in the Southern Ocean and slightly injured two crew members, terming their activities "piratical, terrorist acts".
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In Japan, cellphone novels have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.
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TOKYO, Oct 23  - A high-speed bullet train jumped the tracks when a strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit Tokyo and its surrounding areas Saturday, railway officials said.
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Around sixty commuters had to be ed along tracks to safety after a "significant attempt" to derail a train.
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Around sixty commuters had to be led along tracks to safety after a "significant attempt" to derail a train.
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DHAKA, Aug. 22. - Opposition activists today set afire a passenger train and clashed with police, leading to injuries to several people and the arrest of some protesters, a day after former Prime Minister
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Rail disruption returns to France as train staff demand a security review after a colleague was raped at work.
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The buses are a response to complaints from women who say some men are taking advantage of crowded public transportation to leer and grope and then disappear.
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Tokyo has played host to an exhibition showcasing the latest attractions for gamers.
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Tycho:  Otherwise engaged on Wednesday, Tokyo had a head start on us - its powerful newsings daring to accrue, even as we were being sodomized at the border crossing.  Much of this content was indecipherable.  But we can still point and shriek, like when a monolith descends.