Pyongyang says Kim’s uncle purged
SEOUL (AP)—North Korea announced Monday it had sacked leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, long considered the country’s No. 2 power, saying corruption, ...
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Eda leaves Your Party to create new group
Former Your Party Secretary General Kenji Eda submitted a letter of resignation from the party Monday afternoon, aiming to create a new political par...
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Thai PM dissolves parliament
BANGKOK (AP)—Thailand’s prime minister announced Monday she will dissolve the lower house of parliament and call elections in an attempt to calm ...
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Asada not ready to give up on triple axel
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1 month on, progress in R.P. typhoon zone
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Mystery of drumming: Kodo’s performance beautifully stylized but free
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Dots of color that changed Western art
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Maiko guides give Kyoto show a colorful twist
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New Renzo Piano building in Texas expands gallery space of Kimbell Art Museum
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U.S. vet returns, says DPRK comfortable
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Asada not ready to give up on triple axel
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South Korea expands air defense zone
SEOUL (AP)—South Korea on Sunday announced an expansion of its air defense zone following China’s move to establish a similar zone that has been criticized by Beijing’s neighbors. South Korea ...
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Japan OK with S. Korea ADIZ
The government does not see South Korea’s decision to expand its air defense identification zone as problematic, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Monday. At a press conference, Suga sa...
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Fox most powerful female official ever at Pentagon
WASHINGTON—Christine Fox, a former defense official and Hollywood inspiration, will be the new Deputy Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, making her, at least temporarily, the highest-ranking woma...
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Most Americans benefiting from Medicaid are white
Fact: Most poor people in the United States are white. According to Census figures in 2013, 18.9 million whites are poor. That’s 8 million more poor white people than poor black people, and more t...
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Mandela became conscience of the world
WASHINGTON—His smile was like sunshine, but Nelson Mandela was made of steel. It was his strength of character, repeatedly tested throughout his long and impossibly full life, that made him one of t...
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1 month on, progress in R.P. typhoon zone
TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP)—The government is back at work, and markets are laden with fruits, pork, fish and bread.
Shredded trees are sprouting new leaves. Above all, the sounds of a city gettin...
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Hindu nationalists trounce Congress in Indian heartland
NEW DELHI (AP)—India’s main Hindu nationalist party trounced the nationally ruling Congress in four heartland states and knocked them out of the Indian capital in a ballot contest closely watched...
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U.S. vet returns, says DPRK comfortable
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A day after arriving home to California, the 85-year-old U.S. veteran detained for weeks by North Korea said Sunday that he was well-fed and kept comfortable in a hotel room, not...
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Mystery of drumming: Kodo’s performance beautifully stylized but free
SADO, Niigata—Kodo, a renowned taiko drum troupe based on Sado Island, will launch a new show in Tokyo and Yokohama this month that draws heavily on Japanese folklore. Titled “Mystery,” the show...
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Dots of color that changed Western art
An exhibition under way at The National Art Center, Tokyo, in Roppongi covers an assortment of painters who used Pointillist methods—applying numerous tiny colored dots of paint—from the end of th...
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Maiko guides give Kyoto show a colorful twist
KYOTO—With the cameras rolling, two apprentice geiko, called maiko, approach the deputy chief priest of Matsuno-o Taisha shrine in Kyoto, and begin their interview with the phrase, “Okini, otano m...
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Albania agrees to destroy Syria weapons
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INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR KENNEDY / U.S. ‘has no truer friend than Japan’
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Japan, U.S. to up Senkaku surveillance
In response to China’s declaration of an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea that includes the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, the Japanese and U.S. governments have confi...
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Volcanic eruption raises new islet amid Ogasawara Islands
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Kennedy steps into new limelight
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Princess Masako attends more official functions
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Japan in Depth / Abe-Biden talks highlight efforts to counter China
The meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday underscored the significance of the Japan-U.S. alliance in countering China’s establishment of an air defen...
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Lower house pushes through state secret protection bill
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Kennedy arrives in Japan as new U.S. ambassador
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Abe, Biden lean on China to drop air defense zone
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday agreed to urge China to eliminate its newly established air defense identification zone that includes airspace over the Sen...
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Today the English-language newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun starts anew under the name of The Japan News.
Amid Japan's declining international presence, the nation is facing a chall...