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Japanese Self Defense Force members gather near a facility in a base firing range, following a deadly shooting in Gifu, central Japan, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. A Japanese soldier was arrested Wednesday after allegedly shooting three colleagues at an army base in central Japan, officials said. (Kyodo News via AP)

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18-year-old trainee accused of shooting 3 soldiers at firing range on Japanese army base, killing 2
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Tue,06/13/23-9:28PM , 145 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said.

The suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene in Gifu prefecture in central Japan, police said.
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Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami poses for media during a press conference on the university's new international house of literature, The Haruki Murakami Library, opening at the Waseda University in Tokyo, on Sept. 22, 2021. In a speech released Wednesday, June 7, 2023, Murakami says walls are increasingly built and dividing people and countries as fear and skepticism flourish following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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Author Haruki Murakami says pandemic, war in Ukraine create walls that divide people
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Wed,06/07/23-2:23AM , 247 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese writer Haruki Murakami says walls are increasingly built and dividing people and countries after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic fueled fear and skepticism.
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AP correspondent Laurence Brooks reports on the resignation of the Japanese Prime Minister's son, over a private party at his official residence.

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Japan PM's son to resign after public outrage over private party at official residence
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Mon,05/29/23-8:55AM , 435 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his son is resigning as his executive policy secretary to take responsibility for using the prime minister’s residence for a private party at which the merrymaking was exposed in magazine photos that triggered public outrage.
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This shows a house where a man with a rifle and knife had holed up in Nakano, Nagano prefecture, central Japan Friday morning, May 26, 2023. Police said that they arrested the man armed with a rifle and a knife who had holed up inside the house for hours after allegedly killing four people, including two police officers. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Suspect in killing of 4 people, including 2 police officers, in Japan captured after standoff
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Thu,05/25/23-4:47AM , 252 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Police said they arrested a man Friday who had holed up in his father's house armed with a rifle and a knife after allegedly killing four people, including two police officers, in central Japan.

TV Asahi showed the man with his hands on his head walk out of the house and be ushered toward a police vehicle.
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