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JAPAN
Jun 16, 2010

Futenma plan firm, Kan tells Nakaima

Prime Minister Naoto Kan reiterated Tuesday his intention to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma within Okinawa, telling Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima that the agreement reached by the Hatoyama administration with the U.S. will stand despite the change of Cabinet.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 16, 2010

Inaba, teammates rough up Yakult's Tateyama

The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' first hit was a home run.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 13, 2010

Higashide, Otake ignite Carp to win over Lions

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Kan Otake might've been on the road, but it probably felt like a home game at times.

Longform

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