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Princess Mako joins ceremony in Brazil to mark 110th anniversary of Japanese emigration
About 4,000 people, including Princess Mako, attended a ceremony in Sao Paulo on Saturday to mark the 110th anniversary of the arrival of Brazil's first Japanese immigrants. In a speech, Princess Mako expressed her gratitude to the government and people of Brazil for warmly welcoming ...
GSDF joins Bastille Day parade in Paris as Japan and France mark 160th anniversary of bilateral ties
Seven members of the Ground Self-Defense Force took part in the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris on Saturday. The seven, including Col. Hiroyuki Yokoyama, head of the 32nd Infantry Regiment of the GSDF's 1st Division, were among some 4,300 participants who marched about 2.5 ...
Thousands rally in Hong Kong over Beijing's tightening grip
Thousands of Hong Kong residents braved sweltering heat on Sunday to protest against Beijing's tightening grip over the city as the former British colony marked the 21st anniversary of its return to Chinese rule. The protestors included elderly people in wheelchairs, couples with sleeping toddlers ...
Long before Pasteur, the forgotten medical 'genius' Semmelweis pioneered disinfection
It is not an uncommon fate for a pioneering scientist: languishing unrecognized during his time and then dying in obscurity. But on his 200th birthday, the life-saving work of a Hungarian obstetrician is finally getting its due. Decades before Louis Pasteur won widespread acceptance for ...
The governor uses the Battle of Okinawa anniversary and America’s ongoing detente with North Korea to renew his call for shrinking the U.S. military’s footprint in the prefecture.
Liu Xia, widow of dissident Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, has said she felt that loving her husband was a "crime" for which she had received a "life sentence," according to an audio recording released Friday. Liu Xia, 57, has been under de facto house arrest ...
Thousands of displaced remain in emergency shelters and the threat of Islamic extremists and unexploded bombs lingers in the rubble of a southern Philippine city, where survivors on Wednesday remembered a disastrous five-month siege by Islamic State group-aligned fighters that began a year ago. The ...
One decade after an earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, China's investment in disaster preparedness means a similar tragedy is unlikely, said experts who urged other Asian nations to follow suit. The massive quake that rocked China's southwestern province of Sichuan on the afternoon of May ...
Look who's picking up the tab for Karl Marx's birthday bash: China
Karl Marx's home town is holding a party for the "Communist Manifesto" author's bicentenary, and China is paying for the birthday gift. Trier, in western Germany, is bracing for big crowds for the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth this weekend, with political speeches, competing demonstrations ...
50 years ago in Vietnam's My Lai village, massacre brought shame to U.S. military
The shudder of artillery fire woke the boy at 5:30 a.m. Three American soldiers appeared at his family's home a couple of hours later and forced the mother and five children into their bomb shelter, a structure almost every rural Vietnamese home had. One soldier ...
100 years of women's suffrage: How one group changed British history
British women won the right to vote 100 years ago after an intense struggle marked by a violent fringe campaign that shocked the country but helped to change the world. On Feb. 6, 1918, the Representation of the People Bill became law and added to ...
50 years later, former residents recall harsh conditions in Vietnam's war tunnels
American bombs rained down overhead as Ho Thi Giu was born in an underground tunnel on Jan. 1, 1968, where hundreds of Vietnamese villagers carved out subterranean lives to escape the bloodshed of the country's brutal civil war. Saltwater sloshed underfoot as her mother gave ...
