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U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pose for photographs with autographed hats reading "Donald and Shinzo, Make Alliance Even Greater" at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture in November 2017.

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Abe nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize at request of U.S., report says

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the U.S. government to do so, the Asahi newspaper reported Sunday. The report follows Trump's claim Friday that Abe had nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize f...

A 4-meter oarfish lies on the deck of a boat after being caught on Jan. 28 off Toya port in Okinawa Prefecture.

Okinawan fishermen reel in two live oarfish, eat portion of one

Two rare deep-sea oarfish caught in fixed nets off Toya port on the southwest side of Okinawa stunned the local fishing community last month for simply being alive. The oarfish, netted about 2.5 km away from the coast on Jan. 28, were about 4 meters and 3.6 meters long, according to the villag...

China’s space debris cleanup may be cover story for arms against U.S. satellites, Pentagon says

China is developing sophisticated space capabilities such as "satellite inspection and repair" and debris cleanup — "at least some of which could also function" as weapons against U.S. satellites, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency. The increase in what's essentially orbiting garbage...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laughs as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington last June.

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Trump claims Abe nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize

by Jesse Johnson

Did Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize? Trump seems to think so. The U.S. leader said Friday in a wide-ranging speech from the Rose Garden of the White House that Abe had sent a "most beautiful" "five-page letter" to the Nobel committee to nom...

A dead oarfish is seen after washing ashore on a beach in Mexico. A number of the fish, a rarely seen deep-sea species, have been detected one after another in waters around Japan this year. Japanese lore has it that sightings of the fish are a precursor to an earthquake, making some fearful of an impending disaster striking the country.

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Sightings of rare deep-sea oarfish around Japan stoke concerns of an impending quake

Numerous reports of oarfish — a rarely seen deep-sea species — captured or spotted in waters around Japan since the beginning of the year have sparked concern that an earthquake could strike soon. According to local folklore, sighting the fish is a harbinger of a pending quake, with over a doz...