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JAPAN
Nov 9, 2010

Senkaku video leak probed as a crime

Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologized in the Diet Monday as prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into how sealed video footage of the Sept. 7 collisions of a Chinese trawler and two Japan Coast Guard cutters near the Senkaku Islands ended up on the Internet last week.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 9, 2010

Team unity carries Marines to title

NAGOYA — Norifumi Nishimura and the Chiba Lotte Marines have come full circle.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2010

APEC vows to cut global imbalances

KYOTO — Finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum agreed Saturday to work toward reducing global economic imbalances and avoiding a currency devaluation war, stressing foreign exchange rates must be determined by markets and reflect economic fundamentals.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Nov 4, 2010

Imae, Kiyota make case for Japan Series MVP award consideration

CHIBA — Obviously, it's too early to talk about who will be the Japan Series MVP award.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2010

Noda to opposition: Cooperate on budget

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda in a financial policy speech Tuesday called for the opposition camp to cooperate and help swiftly pass the supplementary budget for fiscal 2010.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2010

Medvedev's Kunashiri trip spurs protest

Tokyo lodged a strong protest Monday over Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit the same day to Kunashiri Island, one of the four Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that Japan wants returned.

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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