• North Korea missile launch over Japan shakes U.S. allies

    North Korea missile launch over Japan shakes U.S. allies

    Aug 30, 2017 12:45 AM EDT

    ... building, but we were thinking ours here would be gone in the first blast. NICK SCHIFRIN: The test shook a key U.S. ally, admitted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. SHINZO ABE, Prime Minister, Japan (through interpreter): The North Korean missile, which passed over our nation, represents the greatest and ...

  • News Wrap: North Korea fires missile over Japan

    News Wrap: North Korea fires missile over Japan

    Aug 28, 2017 11:49 PM EDT

    ... MILES O'BRIEN: In the day's other news: North Korea has fired its second missile in three days, and, this time, the Pentagon says it flew over Japan. South Korea's military says the missile flew nearly 1,700 miles. Japanese broadcaster NHK reports it triggered alarms on ...

  • What we know about the missile North Korea fired over Japan

    What we know about the missile North Korea fired over Japan

    Aug 28, 2017 10:56 PM EDT

    ... including some short-range tests this weekend, Politico reported. But the most recent missiles only traveled about 250 kilometers, or 155 miles. Flying missiles over Japan is more rare. This is only the third missile from North Korea to fly over Japan, The Guardian reports. The other two came in ...

  • U.S. bombers join jets from Japan, South Korea for training mission

    U.S. bombers join jets from Japan, South Korea for training mission

    Jul 08, 2017 02:30 PM EDT

    ... the East China Sea with F-2 fighter jets of the Koku Jieitai, or Japan Air Self-Defense Force, the statement said. "The U.S.-Japan alliance and the relationship between our militaries are stronger than they have ever been," said Lt. Gen. Jerry P. Martinez, U.S. Forces Japan ...

  • News Wrap: U.S., Japan and South Korea unite on North Korea

    News Wrap: U.S., Japan and South Korea unite on North Korea

    Jul 07, 2017 11:07 PM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: The U.S., Japan and South Korea have agreed to apply -- quote -- "maximum pressure" after North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test. In a joint statement, they said they will push for a U.N. Security Council resolution to apply new ...

  • Seven Navy crew missing, skipper hurt after collision off Japan

    Seven Navy crew missing, skipper hurt after collision off Japan

    Jun 17, 2017 01:35 PM EDT

    TOKYO — Seven Navy sailors were missing and the captain and at least two others were injured after a U.S. destroyer and a container ship collided off the coast of Japan before dawn Saturday, the U.S. Navy and Japanese coast guard reported. Rescuers were searching for the seven sailors ...

  • Revisiting Japanese internment on the 75th anniversary

    Revisiting Japanese internment on the 75th anniversary

    Feb 20, 2017 12:23 AM EDT

    ... MINURO IMAMURA: This is my grammar school years here. EDDIE ARRUZA: Minoru Imamura was born in a farming community just south of Los Angeles in 1926. It's where his immigrant parents had settled after leaving Japan in search of a better life. And while Imamura--who likes to ...

  • Executive order that incarcerated Japanese Americans is 75

    Executive order that incarcerated Japanese Americans is 75

    Feb 19, 2017 02:10 PM EDT

    SAN FRANCISCO — Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire in a prison camp during World War II, the daughter of U.S. citizens forced from their home without due process and locked up for years following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Roughly 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans ...

  • What’s the future of relations with China, Japan under Trump?

    What’s the future of relations with China, Japan under Trump?

    Feb 11, 2017 12:39 AM EDT

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with President Trump Friday amid growing concerns in Asia over trade, North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs and China flexing its military muscle. Judy Woodruff speaks with Evan Medeiros, former senior director for Asian affairs during the Obama administration, about what U.S. relations with Asia look like going forward.

  • Trump hugs ally Japan after easing U.S.-China tensions

    Trump hugs ally Japan after easing U.S.-China tensions

    Feb 10, 2017 05:57 PM EDT

    ... s longstanding territorial dispute with China over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, Trump said the U.S. is committed to the security of Japan and all areas under its administrative control. The implication was that the U.S.-Japan defense treaty covers the disputed islands, which Japan which ...