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JAKARTA , Dec. 9 -- _ A Japanese consortium and the Indonesian government on Monday formally terminated a contract under which they cooperated to run an aluminum production company, which was effectively nationalized by Jakarta around two months ago.

The number of Japanese companies willing to consider buying electricity from new providers has jumped from three months ago, a Reuters poll showed, amid uncertainty on the restarting of nuclear energy and after power-sector reforms were approved.

The daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy toured Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Museum on Tuesday and met with some atomic bomb survivors.

Seismologists have to sort of compartmentalize their emotions about big earthquakes.

Washoku, the traditional cuisine of Japan, is being considered for designation as part of the world's priceless cultural heritage by the UN.

Crown Prince Naruhito and former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda left for South Africa on Monday to attend the funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

Marysville Mayor John Gore, right, gives a tour of the city to a delegation from Japan, including Makoto Shimada, left, mayor of Yorii.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord's senior Army general spent the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in a place that once would have seemed unlikely to his late World War II veteran father-in-law.

Last month on the afternoon before the first press day, the bosses of each member of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association stood shoulder to shoulder on the same stage, as the sound of a revving engine from each of their lineups roared in turn.

The maglev train being tested in central Japan could cut travel time between Tokyo and Osaka, or New York to D.C. to one hour.

A strong earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, struck the Kuril Islands in Japan at 1.24 am today, according to the Malaysian Meteorological Department.

Presenting records more important than demanding Japan`s apology over massacre .

Japan's controversial new state secrets law was condemned Saturday as "the largest ever threat to democracy in postwar Japan" by a group of academics, including two Nobel prize winners, reports said.

Cultural ties between the CNMI and Japan continue to flourish despite a decline in Japanese tourist arrivals that was precipitated by the departure of Japan Airlines in 2005.

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.

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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.