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Ms Sakie Yokota , mother of Ms Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea agents at age 13 in 1977, answers questions from the media with her husband Shigeru during a news conference in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo, March 17, 2014.

Amid the bagpipers, baton twirlers and high-school bands striding down Fifth Avenue in New York's St. Patrick's Day parade, now in its 253rd year, will be a whiskey-loving, green-wearing, 10th-generation potato farmer.

AIRA, the lineup that now includes a bassline/sequencer, drum machine, synth, and vocal processor, has in just a few months changed the way a lot of people think about Roland.

ACHS alumni seeks the attention of First Lady Jacob Leibeck, ( an ACHS alumni and former Columbia resident, is trying to get first lady Michelle Obama's attention.

A Navy veteran who claimed to be the sailor who was kissing a nurse in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo taken in Times Square on V-J day has died.

Fukushima nuclear workers and their supporters shouts slogans as they raise their fists in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company , operator of the tsunami-battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, during a rally in Tokyo on March 14, 2014.Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images Over 5,000 people rallied in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on ... (more)

Cautionary tales still circle from Fukushima's radioactive plumes. Last week, on the third anniversary of the "3/11" earthquake and tsunami along eastern Japan, a gathering at St. Michael's College in Colchester explored the disaster's aftershocks.

As remuneration in the British Columbia public sector skyrockets, we bring you our annual database of who is making what in B.C.'s public service.

With the future of the Rolling Stones ' in limbo, their iconic vocalist Mick Jagger kicked off a solo tour of Japan on March 15, 1988 in support of his second album, 'Primitive Cool.'

There comes a time when the gloves come off, and a fight is just that, a fight. If World War I had not happened and tens of millions not died, half of Europe may still be under absolute monarchy today.

In recent years, both within and outside Japan, interest in the post-World War II Gutai art movement has increased considerably, with major museum exhibitions appearing at such venues as the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano, - Switzerland, the National Art Center in Tokyo, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as solo and group shows at ... (more)

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.