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A man killed more than a dozen people early Tuesday morning at a Japanese facility for the disabled, according to the Associated Press. The attack occurred in Sagamihara, a city 30 miles west of Tokyo, according to the nation's public broadcasting organization NHK. NHK reported 15 dead and 45 ...
... would then become under what conditions she would hold the agreement hostage to a manipulation dispute. We actually think that, perversely, a manipulator designation for Japan could save the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This is because a cosmetic agreement with Japan to modify its currency policy, perhaps after a period of ...
... BRIEN: When I met him in 2012, radiation biophysicist Evan Douple was the associate chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The joint Japanese and U.S. study has been following the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for nearly 70 years. EVAN DOUPLE: There ...
... TAKEOKA, ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR: If he comes here and sees what a horrible thing the atomic bomb is, I think that's enough. ALISON STEWART: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said no apology is necessary and Obama’s historic visit will achieve another goal. SHINZO ABE, PRIME MINISTER, JAPAN ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: All that and more on tonight's "PBS NewsHour." (BREAK) HARI SREENIVASAN: In the day's other news: Thousands of rescue workers in Japan kept searching for survivors from two earthquakes last week. They hit the southern island of Kyushu on Thursday night and again early Saturday, killing ...
The second deadly earthquake to strike southern Japan this week killed dozens of people in the early morning hours Saturday as emergency workers flocked to scenes of destruction across the Kumamoto prefecture. At least 41 people were killed and more than 1,500 injured following a 7.3-magnitude tremor ...
As a photographer, I scout the unknown and unseen. In my travels, I journey into forsaken places all over the world, trying to capture the momentum of abandonment. For my “Forgotten Theme Parks” series, I went to Japan for the sole purpose of exploring its abandoned structures. This project started ...
... and Japan reached a breakthrough settlement of $8.3 million to resolve a decades-long dispute regarding Korean women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. The agreement, announced Monday, aims to resolve the emotional and historic grievance South Korea has held since Japan’s ...
... MORI ROTHMAN: George Takei believes a musical is the perfect format to retell the history of the Japanese-American internment during World War Two. GEORGE TAKEI: Music has the power to hit people right here in the heart, emotionally, as well as intellectually. MORI ROTHMAN: In early 1942 the ...
... learned in elementary, middle and high school. TAMARA TUNIE, NARRATOR: Ken Higashiguchi is six years old and lives with his mother and father in Nara, Japan, a nation committed to having a fully literate society. Nearly every child in Japan goes to school. And today, like Ken, thousands of six ...
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