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USS Lexington Museum executive director Steve Banta, left, and Toshihiro Mutsuda, the elderly son of Japanese soldier Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, hold together Mutsuda's good luck flag during the handover ceremony of his good luck flag at Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, July 29, 2023. Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war. On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: “It's a miracle." (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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It's a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag he carried returns from US
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Sat,07/29/23-8:50AM , 1,265 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is presented the International Atomic Energy Agency's comprehensive report on Fukushima treated water release by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, on July 4, 2023. Japan stepped up its alarm over China's assertiveness in the region, its growing military ties to Russia and its claims on Taiwan in an annual defense paper released Friday, July 28, 2023 that is the first under Tokyo's new security strategy calling for a major military buildup. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

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Japan raises alarm over China's military, Russia ties and Taiwan tensions in new defense paper
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Thu,07/27/23-9:31PM , 152 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government stepped up its alarm over Chinese assertiveness, warning in a report issued Friday that the country faces its worst security threats since World War II as it plans to implement a new strategy that calls for a major military buildup.
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This shows a hotel where the headless body of a man was found in Sapporo, northern Japan on July 8, 2023. Japanese police said Tuesday, July 25 they have arrested a woman and her parents in a bizarre beheading case in a popular night entertainment district in Japan's northern city of Sapporo, where the headless man was found in a hotel room three weeks ago. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Japan police arrest woman, parents in beheading of man at hotel in Hokkaido entertainment district
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Mon,07/24/23-11:30PM , 208 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police said they arrested a woman and her parents in a beheading case in a popular night entertainment district in Japan's northern city of Sapporo, where a headless man was found in a hotel room three weeks ago.
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Family members enjoy at the Usuiso beach in Iwaki, northeastern Japan, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

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Fukushima residents worry nuclear plant's wastewater release in a few weeks will be another setback
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Sun,07/23/23-11:31PM , 101 Reads
IWAKI, Japan (AP) — Beach season has started across Japan, which means seafood for holiday makers and good times for business owners. But in Fukushima, that may end soon.
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