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In conjunction with the release of her debut EP Love�s Embrace, teen idol Yao Yao is on a mission to collect hugs. Kuo Shu Yao, popularly known as Yao Yao, is on a mission to collect hugs. With her doe...

Eight teenagers in Okinawa, Japan, have been arrested in the death of a classmate beaten so badly he died of hemorrhagic shock, police said. The eight were charged Friday with inflicting bodily injury resulting in the death of 14-year-old Hoshito...

Decades since Washington and Tokyo reportedly crafted secret agreements to allow U.S. nuclear weapons in Japanese territory, declassified documents from the U.S. detailing its nuclear presence in Okinawa and elsewhere in Japan during the postwar period are slowly coming to...

Louis Vuitton may have charmed Japanese wallets, but if Dominique Cravic and Daniel Colin have their way, musette will soon enchant Japanese ears and minds. Musette is an accordion-centered traditional French music created in Paris in the 1920s from a...

The US must deal with the fact that the Japanese people have chosen a different path from 50-odd years of LDP rule, and that the old certainties of the alliance are no longer valid...It violates the expressed will of Nago...

South Korea — For all of President Obama ’s laying claim to the title of “America’s first Pacific president,” Asia was always going to be a tough nut for him to crack. Without the first lady at his side, he...

The Documents [Yuki Tanaka is Research Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute and an Asia-Pacific Jurnal coordinator. He is the coeditor with Marilyn Young of Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History. He wrote this article for The Asia-Pacific Journal.] At first glance,...

Pacific Far East High School Class AA football playoffs at Mike Petty Stadium, Kubasaki High School, Camp Foster, Okinawa. The Panthers, who enjoyed their finest regular season in school history at 5-1, lost three of their last four games, including...

Alarmed by increasing deaths of a rare and protected species of rabbit in Japan's semi-tropical southern islands due to human negligence, the Environment Ministry's Naha Nature Conservation Office has declared a 'state of emergency' in the country. According to the...