TYPHOON, MUDSLIDES KILL 17 IN JAPAN; 50 MISSING
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Rescue workers look for survivors as they stand on the rubble of a house buried by mudslides after a powerful typhoon hit Oshima on Izu Oshima island,…
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JAPANESE COURT: ANTI-KOREA ‘HATE SPEECH’ ILLEGAL
By MARI YAMAGUCHI In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, nationalist protesters with Japanese flags, left, and Japan’s naval ensign, right, march through a Tokyo street to denounce”privileges” for…
EX-US REGULATOR: FUKUSHIMA CLEANUP COMPLICATED
By MARI YAMAGUCHI FILE – This Jan. 26, 2012 file photo shows the No. 4 reactor, left, and the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co’s Ohi nuclear power…
CITIES MAKE FINAL PITCHES AHEAD OF 2020 VOTE
By STEPHEN WILSON Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrives to attend the Istanbul 2020 bid presentation during the International Olympic Committee session, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.…
MORE TANK LEAKS FOUND AT JAPAN NUCLEAR PLANT
By MARI YAMAGUCHI FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 file photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture,…
NKOREA WITHDRAWS INVITE FOR US ENVOY
By MATTHEW LEE and MATTHEW PENNINGTON FILE – In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Bob King, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, talks with…
JAPAN MINISTERS WAR SHRINE VISITS ANGER SKOREA
In this Sunday, April 21, 2013 photo, Keiji Furuya, state minister in charge of North Korea’s past abductions of Japanese nationals, leaves the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Japan’s Prime Minister…
JAPAN INCREASINGLY NERVOUS ABOUT NORTH KOREA NUKES
By ERIC TALMADGE Japan’s chief Cabinet spokesman Yoshihide Suga speaks about North Korea during a regular press conference at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Tokyo Monday, April 8, 2013.…