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... it occurred closer to the coast, about 100 kilometers 60 miles, and that's where the search and rescue mission found the two crew members. Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, which dispatched aircraft and vessels to join in the search operation, said Japanese rescuers found one of the crew ...
... and met with students at elite Peking University, is to return to Japan on Saturday. The last such visit was in late 2011. Xi is expected to visit Japan next year, with Abe returning to China to attend a trilateral summit of the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea.
In the town of Atsuma, where entire hillsides collapsed, rescuers used small backhoes and shovels to search for survivors under the tons of earth that tumbled down steep mountainsides.
Rescuers in southwestern Japan dug up more bodies Monday as they searched for dozens still missing after heavy rains caused severe flooding and left residents to return to their homes unsure where to start the cleanup.
TOKYO — Torrents of rainfall and flooding battered a widespread area in southwestern Japan on Saturday, with local media casualty reports climbing quickly. Public broadcaster NHK said 38 people were dead, four were injured seriously and 47 were missing. [nhpullquote]Okayama prefecture said a man caught in a landslide died, and six others were missing. Evacuation...
... blocks may be key to understanding the origins of the planets and of life on Earth -- and could also make future space prospectors very rich. Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe is on track to arrive at a kilometer-wide asteroid called Ryugu on June 27. On August 17 a NASA craft ...
... Hill. Senator Mazie Hirono is a Democrat from Hawaii and the only immigrant currently serving in the Senate, having come to the U.S. from Japan as a child with her mother and brother. Senator Hirono, we're going to talk about immigration and child separation. But, first, I want ...
... and Li later Wednesday. He stressed the importance of a free and peaceful East China Sea to Li, and proposed to Moon a "future-oriented" Japan-South Korea relationship by overcoming their contentious historical issues stemming from Japan's wartime actions. Japan and China also signed an agreement to launch ...
... s taking a very leading voice on North Korea, there's also this idea that President Trump thinks that the trade that we have with Japan right now is not fair, and he wants to of Japan to pay more. He wants Japan to be buying more military planes. He ...
... formally will say he is willing to denuclearize his country. Abe is concerned about North Korea’s use of medium-range missiles, which can reach Japan, not just intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, said Yuki Tatsumi, co-director of the East Asia Program and director of the Japan Program at ...
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