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George Lippincott, 93, died peacefully surrounded by his loving family on March 6, 2014.

Hollywood has its Oscars. The music world has its Grammys. And, of course, the food industry has its own best in show.

Three years after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami nearly triggered a nuclear cataclysm in central Japan, conditions at the shattered Fukushima No.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck a swath of western Japan early Friday morning, registering a strong intensity in parts of Shikoku, Honshu and Kyushu islands but no tsunami was observed, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Danny Friedmann says Japan cannot, in this day and age, absolve its imperial army from responsibility for sex slavery during the second world war, when clear evidence of its guilt exists Korean woman Kim Bock-dong, bottom, who was forced to serve for the Japanese troops as a sex slave during World War II, attends a rally demanding full compensation ... (more)

On Saturday March 15, 2014 renown musicians and artists living in the San Francisco Bay Area will perform music related to the Tohoku area in Japan, where the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami hit on March 11, 2011.

Amy Chua, the "Tiger Mother" who launched a thousand panic attacks among ambitious but lenient parents, is back with an almost-great book about why some groups achieve spectacular success in America while others languish.

A former SK Hynix employee is at the center of a brewing legal battle between top flash memory rivals after allegedly stealing trade secrets.

When the tsunami smashed the seafood processing factory where Shoichi Sato was working, he lost his job but eventually found a new life.

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 photo, Shoichi Sato, president of Kamaishi Hikari Foods Co., Ltd. speaks about the 2011 tsunami that hit the area in Toni, northeastern Japan.

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 photo, employees of Kamaishi Hikari Foods Co., Ltd. cut boiled octopus at the firm's factory in Kamaishi, northeastern Japan.

Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co has shut all units at its 120,000 barrels-per-day Tokuyama refinery complex in western Japan after a strong earthquake, the company said on Friday.

Liquidity is important in the casino industry because it offers the ability to make large investment decisions quickly.

Last year, Japan Airlines launched their new business class cabin, but it's only just now beginning to take to the skies.

A Magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off Japan's southern island of Kyushu near the city of Oita, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Thursday.

Hirofumi Hayashi, a politics professor at Kanto Gakuin University, speaks at a rally in Tokyo last week against Japan's move to review and alter its 1993 apology for its military's wartime mobilization of sex slaves.

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Japan put two reactors on a shortlist for a final round of safety checks on Thursday, moving a step closer to a revival of the country's nuclear industry, three years after the Fukushima disaster led to the shutdown of all plants.

Urban explorer Florian Seidel has visited Nara Dreamland more than half a dozen times for his blog Abandoned Kansai.

Infant HIV cure A second HIV-infected child seems to have been successfully treated, according to the doctor who last year reported the first child to be cured of the infection .