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That worry became real for the 37-year-old restaurant worker on Tuesday, with the news that a missile had soared over the Japanese island of Hokkaido. "I was worried when I heard they had missile power," Shigihara said, standing just outside Tokyo's busy ... ( read original story ...)

This missile landed nowhere near Guam, which is about 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) south of Tokyo, but the length of Tuesday's launch may have been designed for the North to show it could follow through on its threat. Seoul says the missile was launched ... ( read original story ...)

Pedestrians watch the news on a huge screen displaying a map of Japan (R) and the Korean Peninsula, following a North Korean missile test that passed over Japan. (Photo: AFP). Metrotvnews.com, Tokyo: Tokyo stocks fell in early Tuesday trading after North ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday ... while the Shanghai Composite inched up nearly 0.2 per cent to 3,367.99. MISSILE NEWS: North Korea fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan before plunging into the northern Pacific Ocean, an ... ( read original story ...)

The missile was fired from the area of Sunan in Pyongyang shortly before 6 a.m. and flew east, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, according to Yonhap News Agency. "It passed through the sky over Japan," the JCS said. Japan's Chief Cabinet ... ( read original story ...)

To help promote the tourism of Sapporo City, GMA worked on a campaign that included two episodes of GMA News TV’s Biyahe ni Drew named “Sophisticated Sapporo” and “Countryside Sapporo”, along with various online features in gmanetwork.com. ( read original story ...)

North Korea in June also angrily reacted to the launch of a Japanese satellite it said was aimed at spying on the North and said Tokyo was no longer entitled to fault Pyongyang “no matter what it launches or whether that crosses the sky above Japan.” ( read original story ...)

North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan and landed in waters off the northern region of Hokkaido early Tuesday, South Korean and Japanese officials say, marking a sharp escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula. The test, which experts said ... ( read original story ...)

North Korea fired a missile early Tuesday that passed over northern Japan, the Japanese government says. The government's J-Alert warning system advised people in the area to take precautions, but public broadcaster NHK said there was no sign of damage. ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) See more of : Tokyo's real-life living doll Tokyo's real-life living doll Lulu - a full-body doll suit consisting of a wig, a mask and stockings patterned with doll-like joints - was born from one woman’s desire to become cute. (Reuters ... ( read original story ...)

Japan went through the routine three times in the fourth inning of the Little League World Series championship Sunday as Daisuke Hashimoto, Keitaro Miyahara and Natsuki Yajima homered, turning a tight game with Lufkin, Texas, into a 12-2 rout. Tsubasa ... ( read original story ...)

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Three men whose companies are involved in the manufacture and sales of disposable diapers — the use of which is expected to increase with the aging population — have started an association in Nagoya to research ways to turn them into fuel. The Nippon ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's military will practice deploying anti-missile batteries at three U.S. bases in Japan as concern grows about the North Korean missile threat. The exercises will take place Tuesday at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo and at Marine Corps Air Station ... ( read original story ...)

A Columbus woman is claiming in a federal lawsuit that Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi fired her for raising concerns about discrimination against a pregnant employee and whistleblowing other employees' alleged illegal activity -- including sexual ... ( read original story ...)

AUSTRALIA and Japan have built up quite the football rivalry, particularly in the last 12 years. While its origins can be traced back well beyond 2006, it was THAT famous World Cup group game in Kaiserslautern, Germany that lay the foundations. And then ... ( read original story ...)