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    July 12, 2017
    Yusuke Kon at the Minnesota Wild Development Camp at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Jean Pieri / St. Paul Pioneer Press
    Yusuke Kon plans to bring Minnesota Wild experience back to Japan
    ST. PAUL — Imagine this scenario. You step off the plane in a new country, barely knowing a lick of the language. You're shuttled to a hotel,...
    sportsJuly 12, 2017 - 8:09pm
    June 19, 2017
    TR (L-R) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Carlos Victor Ganzon Sibayan, 23, from Chula Vista, CA; Gunner's Mate Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby, 19, from Palmyra, VA; Sonar Technician 3rd Class Ngoc T Truong Huynh, 25, from Oakville, CT; and Yeoman 3rd Class Shingo Alexander Douglass, 25, from San Diego, CA. BR (L-R) Fire Controlman 1st Class Gary Leo Rehm Jr., from Elyria, OH; Personnel Specialist 1st Class Xavier Alec Martin, 24, from Halethorpe, MD; and Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Noe Hernandez, 26, from Weslaco, TX.
    Identities of seven sailors killed aboard USS Fitzgerald released
    TOKYO - Nearly an hour elapsed before a Philippine-flagged container ship reported a collision with a U.S. warship, the Japanese coastguard said...
    NewsJune 19, 2017 - 8:47am
    June 17, 2017
    The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald returns to Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka following a collision with a merchant vessel while operating southwest of Yokosuka, Japan in photo received June 17, 2017. Courtesy of U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter Burghart/Handout via REUTERS
    Search goes on for seven U.S. sailors after collision off Japan
    TOKYO - Rescue crews searched into the early hours on Sunday for seven American sailors missing after a U.S. destroyer collided with a container...
    NewsJune 17, 2017 - 12:37pm
    June 16, 2017
    The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald is shown on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility in support of security and stability in the Pacific Ocean in this September 8, 2014 handout photo. Courtesy of U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David Flewellyn/Handout via REUTERS
    U.S. Navy destroyer collides with merchant vessel near Japan
    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Navy said on Friday one of its destroyers collided with a merchant vessel southwest of Yokosuka, Japan, and a U.S. official...
    NewsJune 16, 2017 - 4:58pm
    June 2, 2017
    A pedestrian walks on a street as smoke billows from the chimneys of a factory in Dalian, China, on Jan. 17, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Qilai Shen.
    'Reckless and foolish': Asia dogpiles on Trump after Paris accord pullout
    BEIJING - Japan's environment minister is angry, Indians are outraged but China's nationalist state media isn't sure whether to laugh or cry....
    NewsJune 2, 2017 - 7:27am
    May 29, 2017
    People watch a television broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, May 29, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
    North Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile, Japan protests
    SEOUL - North Korea fired at least one short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, the latest in a fast-paced...
    NewsMay 29, 2017 - 8:02am
    February 19, 2017
    Roy Takeno stands behind a table addressing a town hall meeting with an American flag on the wall behind him at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, in this 1943 handout photo. Courtesy Ansel Adams / Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-A35-4-M-10/Handout via Reuters
    75 years later, Japanese Americans recall pain of internment camps
    NEW YORK—Joyce Nakamura Okazaki was 7 years old in 1942 when her family left their Los Angeles home and reported to a World War II internment...
    NewsFebruary 19, 2017 - 8:30am
    February 10, 2017
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is greeted by U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of their joint news conference at the White House in Washington Feb. 10, 2017. Joshua Roberts / Reutersplay button
    Trump says U.S. committed to Japan security, in change from campaign rhetoric
    WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Friday, Feb. 10, praised the alliance between the United States and Japan as a cornerstone of regional...
    NewsFebruary 10, 2017 - 5:20pm
    February 3, 2017
    A TV monitor showing U.S. President Donald Trump is seen through national flags of the U.S. and Japan at a foreign exchange trading company in Tokyo, Feb. 1, 2017. Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
    Japan readies package for Trump to help create 700,000 U.S. jobs
    TOKYO -- Japan is putting together a package it says could generate 700,000 U.S. jobs and help create a $450-billion market, to present to U.S....
    NewsFebruary 3, 2017 - 9:35am
    December 31, 2016
    Hunters Chiaki Kodama (R) and Aoi Fukuno drag a deer that Kodama shot through a forest outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, Nov. 17, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
    Japan's female hunters take aim at wild boar, stereotypes
    FUKUI, Japan—Chiaki Kodama blows her deer whistle and soon a male deer wanders into sight. She slowly takes aim and squeezes the trigger....
    NewsDecember 31, 2016 - 2:00pm
    December 27, 2016
    Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe presents a wreath at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dec. 26, 2016. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry
    Obama, Japan's Abe to show solidarity in Pearl Harbor visit
    HONOLULU, Hawaii — President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will use a symbolic joint visit to Pearl Harbor to highlight...
    NewsDecember 27, 2016 - 1:42pm
    December 7, 2016
    Pearl Harbor survivors Delton Walling (C), Gilbert Meyer (R) and U.S. Navy Admiral Margaret Kibben salute during a ceremony honoring the sailors of the USS Utah at the memorial on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii December 6, 2016. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry
    On 75th anniversary, U.S. veterans recall Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
    LOS ANGELES/HONOLULU - It has been 75 years, but U.S. Navy veteran James Leavelle can still recall watching with horror as Japanese warplanes...
    NewsDecember 7, 2016 - 9:51am
    December 5, 2016
    U.S. President Barack Obama, left, carries a wreath as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on, in front of a cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanaiplay button
    Abe to become first Japanese PM to visit Pearl Harbor
    TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor this month with U.S. President Barack Obama, becoming his country's...
    NewsDecember 5, 2016 - 1:48pm
    July 26, 2016
    Police officers investigate at a facility for the disabled, where a deadly attack by a knife-wielding man took place, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture. REUTERS/Issei Kato
    Knife attacker in Japan kills 19 in their sleep at disabled center
    SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo early on Tuesday and killed...
    News/nationJuly 26, 2016 - 1:03pm
    July 25, 2016
    Police officers are seen in front of a facility for the disabled where at least 19 people were killed and as many as 20 wounded by a knife-wielding man, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo July 26, 2016. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
    Report: Nineteen feared dead after knife attack in Japan
    (Reuters) - Nineteen people were feared dead and as many as 24 others wounded after an attack by a knife-wielding man at a facility for the disabled...
    News/nationJuly 25, 2016 - 5:24pm
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