The accusation against two American sailors for the rape of a woman in Okinawa in October has worsened tensions on the island, already inflamed by the recent deployment of the troubled MV-22 Osprey aircraft to the Marine Corps base in the city of Ginowan. Okinawans may be running out of adjectives to express their resentment and anger at being unwilling hosts for more than half of the 50,000 Ameri
TOKYO — The United States military sent the first batch of a sophisticated but accident-plagued new aircraft to an air base on Okinawa on Monday, going forward with its planned deployment despite unexpectedly fierce opposition by islanders and warnings that any crash could threaten the huge American military presence on the island. The first six of the MV-22 Osprey aircraft arrived at Marine Corps
BEIJING — A week is a long time in politics. Even in China, where leadership is measured in decades. So as Beijing gloried recently under brilliant blue skies, the kind of weather known here by the saying “qiu gao qi shuang” (the autumn sky is high, the air is crisp), there was a strong sense that much was still up for grabs as the country approached the important 18th Communist Party Congress in
Numbers, addition, multiplication — the basic stuff of grade-school arithmetic — are suddenly the excited talk of cutting-edge mathematicians. On Aug. 30, with no fanfare, Shinichi Mochizuki, a mathematician at Kyoto University in Japan, dropped onto the Internet four papers. The papers, encompassing 500 pages and four years of effort, claim to solve an important problem in number theory known as
An advertisement for Olympus in Tokyo. Japanese officials said at least $4.9 billion in Olympus funds were missing.Credit...Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News Editors’ Note, Aug. 3, 2021: This article, relying on statements made in a police memo, includes errors. It refers incorrectly to payments being probed by Japanese police. While some of the payments identified in the police memo were made by Nob
People in Osaki, a city in Miyagi Prefecture, tried their cellphones after a 7.1 magnitude aftershock struck northeastern Japan on Thursday night, causing blackouts.Credit...Dai Kurokawa/European Pressphoto Agency TOKYO — The strongest aftershock to hit since the day of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rocked a wide section of the country’s northeast on Thursday night, prompting a tsun
As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing one reason top Chinese leaders had become so obsessed with the Internet search company: they were Googling themselves. The May 18, 2009, cable, titled “Google China Paying Price for Resisting Censorship,” quoted a well-placed source as saying that
It’s hard to imagine a more fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life on the Earth than gravity, from the moment you first took a step and fell on your diapered bottom to the slow terminal sagging of flesh and dreams. But what if it’s all an illusion, a sort of cosmic frill, or a side effect of something else going on at deeper levels of reality? So says Erik Verlinde, 48, a respected string theor
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