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A former vice foreign minister recently said he has seen documents from 1960 that confirm a secret Japan-U.S. pact under which Tokyo allows U.S. military ships and aircraft carrying nuclear weapons to transit Japan. "I saw them. I have memories...

Osaka Gov Toru Hashimoto will be sued again later this month for defamation over his remark on a 2007 TV show criticizing defense lawyers for a man accused of killing a woman and her daughter in 1999 in Yamaguchi Prefecture,...

This would make him the first US leader to do so. His tight schedule does not allow for the visit during his trip to Japan this week, Obama said in an interview Monday with the Japanese broadcaster NHK in Washington....

The government is set to lay out a series of measures to improve Japan’s battered labor situation, possibly by Oct 23, Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan told a press conference Friday. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s cabinet endorsed the establishment of...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki have decided to set up a joint committee that will try to bring the 2020 Summer Olympics to the atomic-bombed cities, their mayors said Sunday. The announcement by Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima and Tomihisa Taue of Nagasaki...

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama has bowed to royalty, with a greeting for the Japanese emperor that erases andy doubts about what the president's posture was -- remember that bow to the Saudi king that was not really a...

Banyan History wars Oct 15th 2009 From The Economist print edition A truce is unlikely to herald lasting peace between Japan and its neighbours Illustration by M. S nearest neighbours have long been less ready than has the rest of...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be good candidates to cohost the 2020 Summer Olympics, outspoken Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said Wednesday. "For world peace, to have the Olympics in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities in the world subjected to nuclear...

Around 350 close friends and family on Sunday attended the funeral of Miyako Hiraoka, the first year Shimane University student whose body parts were found in the mountains of Hiroshima Prefecture earlier this month, a week after she went missing....

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