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Today is the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. It's a day to remember the 2,403 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor, and it's a day to remember the 16,112,566 Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II.

"Wounded Tiger" is a complex and compelling, first "non-fiction novel" by Tucsonan T. Martin Bennett, about the Japanese pilot Commander Mitsuo Fuchida who lead the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and survived WWII.

In the media debate about the state secrets bill, much has been said about the public's right to know.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called Friday for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping to reset relations after an escalation in bilateral tensions, invoking a 2006 visit to Beijing during his first administration.

After winning two landslide elections over the past year, Japan's popular, powerful prime minister, Shinzo Abe, faces little parliamentary opposition.

The new route will complement Air Canada's existing flights to Tokyo Narita International Airport from , the option of flying to Tokyo-Haneda airport aboard our new 787 Dreamliner.

Anti-state secrets law protesters holding "abolish secrets bill" placards shout "shame on you" in front of the Diet building in Tokyo after learning the upper house lawmakers voted to approve the bill late Friday night, Dec. 6, 2013.

Japan's parliament on Friday adopted a law on protecting state secrets despite a public outcry, with strong opposition from the media and academics who fear it will infringe on the right to information and free expression.

Firefighters Yoshiomy Komattsu and Kenichiro Yanagida get ready with other colleagues from Japan to learn fire rescue techniques near Oroville on Thursday.

With his face hidden behind sunglasses and a white surgical mask, the artist is almost as invisible as the radioactive contamination he is protesting against - yet his stickers are graphic reminders of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

DECEMBER 03: Bicycles are stacked on top of each other inside the ECO Cycle system at the Konan Hoshi No Koen Parking on December 3, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.

Police officers patrol a Tokyo street. In the Japanese city of Sakai, police arrested a woman who called them over 15,000 times in the span of six months Police officers patrol a Tokyo street.

Unable to get to that must-see tourist site but can't bear for your teddy to miss out? Then Japan has just the thing for you -- a travel agency that takes stuffed toys on package tours and even provides the holiday snaps to prove it.

Rare overseas visit: Emperor Akihito, accompanied by Empress Michiko, is presented with a bust of India's freedom movement leader Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi during their visit this week.

Japanese police said Thursday they have arrested a woman for calling them more than 15,000 times over a six-month period.

First lady Michelle Obama hosted military families for the first viewing of the decorations and demonstrated holiday crafts and treats for military children.

Christie Rowe and her colleagues spent weeks on a ship in Japan's stormy seas before they finally managed to reach seven kilometers beneath the waves down to where the Earth cracked open unleashing the monster 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami.

Bandai Visual Co., Ltd., a leader in the development and production of Japanese animation, announced that the series Space Dandy will start airing on TV in Japan at 11:00pm on January 5th on Tokyo MX, followed by TV Osaka, TV Aichi and BS Fuji.

But that is hard when relations between Asia's two biggest economies are so poisoned by history.