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A book providing a comprehensive picture of the Tokyo Trials, also known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, drew crowds at the Gaudeamus book fair in Romania on Thursday. The book tells the story of Japanese war criminals tried after ... ( read original story ...)

Media captionSpeaking through a translator Mr Abe said "I am convinced that Mr Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence" Japan's PM Shinzo Abe has said he has "great confidence" in US President-elect Donald Trump and he believes they can build ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's PM has become the first foreign leader to meet US President-elect Donald Trump since the election last week. The meeting in Trump Tower, New York, lasted 90 minutes. There has been concern over the future foreign policy of Tokyo's biggest ally ... ( read original story ...)

Media captionSpeaking through a translator Mr Abe said "I am convinced that Mr Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence" Japan's PM Shinzo Abe has said he has "great confidence" in US President-elect Donald Trump and he believes they can build ... ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first world leader to meet President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, seeking reassurances over the future of the U.S.-Japan security and trade relations. Abe met with Trump in New York, where the ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in New York Thursday ... alter his position on trade deals after opposing them so vocally on the campaign trail. CBS News’ Margaret Brennan reports that Mr. Trump did not ask for or receive any background information ... ( read original story ...)

Shinzo Abe, the Japanese Prime Minister, said his meeting with Donald Trump on Thursday - the first by a foreign leader - convinced him the US president-elect was someone "in whom I can have great confidence". Mr Abe met with Mr Trump in New York ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA – The Nagoya Municipal Government on Friday took the unusual step of warning tourists that they enter Nagoya Castle’s tower at their own risk due to the building being in danger of collapse in a strong earthquake. The city said it installed the ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – The Osaka Prefectural Police have set up a 140-strong emergency team to combat the proliferation of fraud cases. Detected frauds stood at 1,347 at the end of October, and fraud damage in Osaka this year is estimated at ¥4.48 billion. Both have ... ( read original story ...)

Yokohama, the port city in Japan, has a history of over 150 years. The fashionable and modern night view of the city makes it even more attractive. The Sky Garden is 273 meters from the ground and enables a 360 viewing window that is always full of ... ( read original story ...)

HOKKAIDO (TR) – Hokkaido Prefectural Police are questioning a man in a stabbing incident in Sapporo on Wednesday night that left another man seriously injured, reports Nippon News Network (Nov. 17). At around 8:25 p.m. on Wednesday, a knife-wielding ... ( read original story ...)

"There has been a lot of confusion," a Japanese official told Reuters news agency. The BBC's Paul Adams in Washington says Mr Trump has toned down some of his more strident rhetoric since the election, but that hasn't stopped observers wondering whether ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA – Yokohama’s mayor said Wednesday she has instructed ... part of the report to the Fukushima Prefectural Board of Education at its request. Kyodo News recently obtained a full text of the boy’s notes on the bullying, which were written ... ( read original story ...)

which was released by his lawyer at a news conference on Tuesday. The boy wrote the statement in July last year when he was refusing to attend the school due to the bullying. He is now a first-grade junior high school student in Yokohama. According to the ... ( read original story ...)

... Saiki City who has been missing for around three years in a mountainous area of Osaka Prefecture after working off information provided by his father, reports TBS News (Nov. 16). At around 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, officers found the body likely of ... ( read original story ...)

A section of road in the centre of a Japanese city was fixed in days, and has reopened to traffic just one week after it collapsed into a gaping sinkhole. In the early hours of Tuesday, Nov. 8, a massive sinkhole opened up in Fukuoka, Japan, swallowing ... ( read original story ...)