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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is scheduled to visit Tokyo for talks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday, becoming the first South Korean president to visit Japan — his country’s former colonial master — before traveling to the United States, the two Asian nations’ mutual ally.
A boxing match at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2016. Japanese boxing has been rocked by a series of serious injuries and deaths.
Japanese amateur boxer in intensive care after latest incident
The JBF, which oversees amateur boxing in Japan, said the man had not fought a match for over 10 years and had been in training to make a comeback.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past