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An H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, southern Japan Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Japan launches H3 rocket, destroys it over 2nd-stage failure
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Mon,03/06/23-10:38PM , 397 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country's first new rocket series in more than two decades.
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Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto poses for portraits at the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival held from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7, in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 3, 2013. Matsumoto died of acute heart failure in a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 13, 2023, his office, Studio Leijisha, said Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

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Leiji Matsumoto, known for antiwar anime, space tales, dies
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Mon,02/20/23-12:50AM , 398 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Leiji Matsumoto, the anime creator known for ”Space Battleship Yamato” and other classics using a fantastical style and antiwar themes, has died at age 85.
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Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged assassin of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, enters a police station in Nara, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2023. Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, Japan's NHK public television reported Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan's Abe
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Fri,01/13/23-12:10AM , 293 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a court said Friday.
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Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged assassin of Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, exits a police station in Nara, western Japan, on July 10, 2022, on his way to local prosecutors' office. Yamagami is expected to face murder charges Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, in Japan's highest profile case in recent years. (Nobuki Ito/Kyodo News via AP, File)

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Lawyer: Suspect in Abe assassination to face murder charge
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Thu,01/12/23-7:43AM , 534 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors are expected to formally charge the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder on Friday, his lawyer said.
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