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... STREET JOURNAL”: That’s right. For the first time, as you said, Japan may be able to help allies like the United States, even if Japan itself is not attacked. And this, according to these critics, is a violation of Japan’s constitution. HARI SREENIVASAN: So the concerns are what ...
Ben Kuroki, who overcame widespread discrimination to become the only Japanese-American gunner to fly missions over Japan during World War II has died. He was 98. Born in Nebraska to Japanese immigrants, Kuroki enlisted in the U.S. Army after Pearl Harbor and pressed commanders to train him as ...
Residents returned to a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Saturday, as Japanese government officials celebrated a lift on a four-and-a-half-year evacuation order, deeming the area safe after radiation levels had fallen. More than 7,000 Nahara residents were forced to evacuate in March ...
... s uncertain when, where and if the storms will hit land. AccuWeather meteorologist Anthony Sagliani expects Goni to swing through the corridor between Taiwan and Japan this weekend and into next week, potentially hitting Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and the Korean Peninsula. Less than two weeks ago, Taiwan was battered ...
Butoh, a form of Japanese performance art, brings weakness and sadness to the surface in a society that often suppresses those feelings. Gadu Doushin moved from his native Japan to study engineering at the University of Minnesota in the early 1990s, but his true passion was dance. After years studying ...
... sperm whales killed by Japanese fleets in the open waters of the North Pacific Ocean between 1968 and 1969. The reports were submitted by the Japanese to the International Whaling Commission (IWC). “Japanese whalers were already known to have falsified catch data for sperm whales and other species killed by ...
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed on Tuesday that the Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata will declare 33.8 million cars unsafe due to airbag defects. The move would double the company’s previous recall of 17 million vehicles. The U.S. Department of Transportation has also created ...
... exports and profits. With so much at stake, Japan and the U.S. used a state visit this week to step up their lobbying campaign. Japan's leader spent yesterday at the White House and today on Capitol Hill. It was the first time a Japanese prime minister has ever ...
... a book, “The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa.” “Maybe these guys won’t mind if I collaborate with them,” he thought. The dead Japanese poets didn’t mind. Rohrer’s interest in collaboration comes from a tradition established by the haiku masters themselves, who would sit around and ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is finally ready to examine the inside of one of the three compromised reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant -- with the help of a remote-controlled robot that uncannily resembles a snake.
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