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JAPAN / Politics
May 8, 2015
Japan arranging donors' meeting with ADB to support quake-hit Nepal
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida conveyed to his Nepalese counterpart that Tokyo is ready to cosponsor a donors' meeting with the Asian Development Bank to provide new assistance to quake-hit Nepal, ministry officials said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2015
Death and destruction in Nepal
Can the tragedy of Nepal be turned into an opportunity for that country and the world?
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2015
Marines arrive in Nepal; trio rescued after eight days under rubble
Three people were pulled alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal's devastating earthquake, as a supply logjam threatened to hamper disaster relief efforts bolstered by the arrival of U.S. aircraft and troops.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 3, 2015
The harsh lessons of Nepal's quake disaster
Earthquakes plainly lie beyond the control of human beings. Yet the vast spectacle of suffering they reveal should make us ask larger questions of our actions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 2, 2015
Thousands still missing after deadly Nepal quake
Thousands of people were still missing in Nepal on Friday as food and help began to trickle through to those stranded in remote areas after last week's earthquake, which killed at least 6,250.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 30, 2015
Japan relief team arrives in Nepal as disease fears grow
An advance team from Japan's Self-Defense Forces arrived Wednesday morning in Kathmandu to provide medical relief in Nepal, and deteriorating hygiene heightened disease risks after Saturday's massive earthquake.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 2015
Advance SDF emergency disaster party arrives in Nepal
The advance group of a Self-Defense Forces emergency disaster relief team arrived early Thursday in quake-torn Nepal, where over 5,000 people have died and support has been slow to reach survivors.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2015
Japanese rescuers expand search in quake-hit Kathmandu; Nepal prime minister fears 10,000 dead
A team of Japanese rescue workers stepped up their search operations on Wednesday in central Kathmandu a day after arriving in the capital to look for survivors of Saturday's deadly earthquake.
WORLD
Apr 29, 2015
Nepal man trapped for 80 hours in collapsed building is pulled out alive
A Nepali-French search and rescue team pulled a 28-year-old man, Rishi Khanal, from a collapsed apartment block in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu on Tuesday after he had spent around 80 hours in a room with three dead bodies.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2015
Japan to dispatch SDF to Nepal, part of multifaceted aid effort
The government said Tuesday it is sending 110 Self-Defense Forces troops to Nepal to carry out medical work as part of a multifaceted aid effort to the nation struck by a devastating earthquake on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 28, 2015
Quake-displaced thousands flee Kathmandu as Nepal struggles to organize disaster relief
Nepalese officials scrambled on Monday to get aid from the main airport to people left homeless and hungry by a devastating earthquake two days earlier, while thousands tired of waiting fled the capital Kathmandu for the surrounding plains.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 27, 2015
After quake and avalanche, Everest climber not yet ready to quit
Climber Nick Cienski has not given up on his world record bid to scale six 8,000-meter peaks this calendar year, despite narrowly escaping a huge avalanche on Mount Everest on Saturday set off by an earthquake that killed thousands of people in Nepal.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 27, 2015
Route to base camp blocked, scores stranded on Everest above 20,000 feet
Ankur Bahl, a New Delhi shipping industry specialist, was ascending Mount Everest as part of a quest to climb the world's tallest peaks when a devastating earthquake in Nepal stranded him about 21,000 feet above sea level.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2015
Tally of foreigners in Nepal at time of deadly earthquake
Here are details released by some foreign governments on citizens who found themselves in Nepal when a deadly earthquake hit on Saturday, killing more than 2,200 people.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2015
The world's strongest earthquakes since 1900
A magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook Nepal's capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley on Saturday, the worst quake in the Himalayan nation in over 80 years.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 26, 2015
Nepal struggles after devastating quake
Nepal has urged countries to send aid to help it cope with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed nearly 1,400 people — a toll that was predicted to rise as rescuers used their hands to dig for survivors among the rubble on Sunday.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2015
Couple first Nepalese to be granted political asylum by Japan
A Nepalese couple seeking political asylum in Japan became the first Nepalese to do so last month, a lawyers group announced Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Apr 5, 2015
Makeup entrepreneur heals women's souls in Nepal
Mai Mukaida, 32, believes that emotional change often comes with the help of others who encourage one to notice the beauty that lies within.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2014
Nepal blizzard-avalanche trek toll up to 39; more than 370 climbers rescued
The death toll in a blizzard that engulfed trekkers on a popular hiking route in Nepal rose by nine on Saturday to 39, as a helicopter search spotted more bodies stranded in the rugged, snow-covered Himalayan terrain.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2014
Japanese death toll at two in Nepal avalanche disaster
The bodies of what appear to be two Japanese trekkers are retrieved from the site of a fatal blizzard and avalanche that has killed dozens in Nepal.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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