Norimitsu Onishi New York Times

Google, which is responsible for many of the jets that will use the new $82 million center, is helping bring badly needed cash.

Among countless mourners at a public square in North Korea, the kneeling middle-aged man in an off-white windbreaker stands out. The state broadcaster's camera zooms in as he wails, rocking back and forth with clenched fists, his grief punctuated by the white puffs of his breath visible in the cold of the capital, Pyongyang.

Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from "Alice in Wonderland.""It's terrible, just terrible," the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. "We're running out of energy, Alice." A Dodo robot figure, swiveling to ad...

The requests to see her perform had dwindled over the years. But when the earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, this city's last geisha was, fittingly, at home getting ready to sing that night at Kamaishi's 117-year-old ryotei, an exclusive restaurant featuring fine food and entertainment where she began working as a 14-year-old seven decades...

Even in a country whose people are known for walking in lockstep, a national consensus on the proper code of behaviour has emerged with startling speed. Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age of voluntary self-restraint, or jishuku, the antipode of the Japan of the "bubble" era that celebrated excess.With hundreds of thousands of people displaced u...

Even in a country whose people are known for walking in lockstep, a national consensus on the proper code of behavior has emerged with startling speed. Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age of voluntary self-restraint, or jishuku, the antipode of the Japan of the "bubble" era that celebrated excess. Members of the Japanese Red Cross sought donatio...

Just a month before a powerful earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis, government regulators approved a 10-year extension for the oldest of the six reactors at the power station despite warnings about its safety. The committee reviewing extensions pointed to stress cracks in the backup di...

Japan appeared to make moderate progress in stabilizing some of the nuclear reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant on Sunday, but at the same time it disclosed new signs of radioactive contamination in agricultural produce and livestock.The government said it was barring all shipments of milk from Fukushima Prefecture and shipments ...

From seawalls that line stretches of Japan's coastline, to skyscrapers that sway to absorb earthquakes, to building codes that are among the world's most rigorous, no country may be better prepared to withstand earthquakes than Japan. Had any other populous country suffered the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that shook Japan on Friday, tens of thousands ...

In a much-anticipated speech focusing on development, democracy and religion, US President Barack Obama sought on Wednesday to strengthen America's ties with Indonesia, a rising Asian power with the world's largest Muslim population. But his intended audience was also elsewhere in the Muslim world, especially in the Middle East, where he began talk...

Less than a day before President Obama touched down in Jakarta on Tuesday, a high-level Chinese delegation wrapped up a three-day official visit here by announcing that Beijing would invest $6.6 billion in desperately needed infrastructure improvements. The announcement's emphasis on roads, bridges and canals -- not to mention its timing -- laid do...

The two houses where he spent part of his boyhood stand pretty much the way they did when he went back to Hawaii four decades ago. The two schools he attended have grown larger but, in spirit, remain unchanged. Some of his old friends can still be found around the neighborhood.Near one of his homes here, the same family still runs a wooden stall se...

Google, which is responsible for many of the jets that will use the new $82 million center, is helping bring badly needed cash.

Among countless mourners at a public square in North Korea, the kneeling middle-aged man in an off-white windbreaker stands out. The state broadcaster's camera zooms in as he wails, rocking back and forth with clenched fists, his grief punctuated by the white puffs of his breath visible in the cold of the capital, Pyongyang.

Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from "Alice in Wonderland.""It's terrible, just terrible," the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. "We're running out of energy, Alice." A Dodo robot figure, swiveling to ad...

The requests to see her perform had dwindled over the years. But when the earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, this city's last geisha was, fittingly, at home getting ready to sing that night at Kamaishi's 117-year-old ryotei, an exclusive restaurant featuring fine food and entertainment where she began working as a 14-year-old seven decades...

Even in a country whose people are known for walking in lockstep, a national consensus on the proper code of behaviour has emerged with startling speed. Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age of voluntary self-restraint, or jishuku, the antipode of the Japan of the "bubble" era that celebrated excess.With hundreds of thousands of people displaced u...

Even in a country whose people are known for walking in lockstep, a national consensus on the proper code of behavior has emerged with startling speed. Consider post-tsunami Japan as the age of voluntary self-restraint, or jishuku, the antipode of the Japan of the "bubble" era that celebrated excess. Members of the Japanese Red Cross sought donatio...

Just a month before a powerful earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis, government regulators approved a 10-year extension for the oldest of the six reactors at the power station despite warnings about its safety. The committee reviewing extensions pointed to stress cracks in the backup di...

Japan appeared to make moderate progress in stabilizing some of the nuclear reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant on Sunday, but at the same time it disclosed new signs of radioactive contamination in agricultural produce and livestock.The government said it was barring all shipments of milk from Fukushima Prefecture and shipments ...

From seawalls that line stretches of Japan's coastline, to skyscrapers that sway to absorb earthquakes, to building codes that are among the world's most rigorous, no country may be better prepared to withstand earthquakes than Japan. Had any other populous country suffered the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that shook Japan on Friday, tens of thousands ...

In a much-anticipated speech focusing on development, democracy and religion, US President Barack Obama sought on Wednesday to strengthen America's ties with Indonesia, a rising Asian power with the world's largest Muslim population. But his intended audience was also elsewhere in the Muslim world, especially in the Middle East, where he began talk...

Less than a day before President Obama touched down in Jakarta on Tuesday, a high-level Chinese delegation wrapped up a three-day official visit here by announcing that Beijing would invest $6.6 billion in desperately needed infrastructure improvements. The announcement's emphasis on roads, bridges and canals -- not to mention its timing -- laid do...

The two houses where he spent part of his boyhood stand pretty much the way they did when he went back to Hawaii four decades ago. The two schools he attended have grown larger but, in spirit, remain unchanged. Some of his old friends can still be found around the neighborhood.Near one of his homes here, the same family still runs a wooden stall se...