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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis will travel to Japan and South Korea next week for his first overseas visit since taking office, the Pentagon said Wednesday. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, said Mattis would meet with his Korean counterpart in Seoul on Feb. 2 and his Japanese counterpart ...
... for international negotiations. He's now the chief legal officer for the Trump Organization. In the day's other news: Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese prime minister to visit the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. More than 2,300 Americans died there in the Japanese attack on December ...
... a marbled wall lists the names of U.S. troops killed in the Japanese attack. "There's this sense of guilt, if you like, among Japanese, this 'Pearl Harbor syndrome,' that we did something very unfair," said Tamaki Tsukada, a minister in the Embassy of Japan in Washington. He said ...
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin tried a bit of dog diplomacy ahead of his trip to Japan, and then gave a glimmer of hope that a 70-year territorial dispute with Tokyo could be resolved. Japanese journalists met with Putin at the Kremlin, days before Putin heads to Tokyo. The ...
WASHINGTON — After meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday, Japanese tech billionaire Masayoshi Son said he will invest $50 billion in the United States and would "commit" to creating 50,000 new jobs. "I just came to celebrate his new job," Son said. "I said, 'This is great, the U.S ...
https://www.facebook.com/BuzzFeedNews/videos/1312965028724512/ In the early morning hours Tuesday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck off the coast of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Shortly before 6 a.m. local time, the earthquake shook the Japanese east coast at ...
... allow tumor cells to consume drugs. Ohsumi, who currently works at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Yokohama, becomes the 23rd Nobel Prize winner from Japan, and the country's sixth medicine laureate. Of the 107 Nobel awards for physiology and medicine, Ohsumi becomes only the 39th to win as ...
NEW YORK — The United States, Japan and South Korea are roundly condemning North Korea's recent nuclear test and calling for tough new measures to further isolate the communist state. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers said Sunday that the North ...
A pair of typhoons in as many days hit Japan this weekend, leaving one person dead and 11 more injured, closing the island nation's largest airport, dumping rain and pounding wind on the country. Typhoons Mindulle and Kompasu hit Japan within 48 hours of each other, and forecasters predict ...
The U.S. team won gold by a large margin in women's gymnastics on Tuesday, a rare feat in a sport often measured by tenths of a point. On Wednesday night, the competition in the men's gymnastics all-around came even closer. Japan's Kohei Uchimura, a six ...
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