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Norwegian Navy's minesweeper Otra, left, and Estonian mine-hunter Admiral Cowen, right, are seen in the military port of Swinoujscie, Poland, Thursday, April 24, 2014.

An employee uses a torch to work on the underside of a ship's hull at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.'

Avril Lavigne and her spokeswoman both say critics who called the video for her song "Hello Kitty," racist towards Asians are wrong.

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks during a toast with Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at an Imperial Palace state dinner.

President Barack Obama tours Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Also on the tour with the president are chief priest Seitaro Nakajima, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and her husband Edwin Schlossberg.

A guard at a Kabul hospital run by a US charity opened fire on Thursday, killing at least one foreign doctor and wounding several other people, medics told AFP.

China on Thursday released a seized Japanese ship after its owner paid $28 million in compensation, a court said, in a business dispute dating to the 1930s which underlines tensions between the countries.

President Obama shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before a private dinner at Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Federal ocean scientists have released images of the wreckage of a steamship that sank in San Francisco Bay in 1888, a disaster that killed 16 people.

Justin Bieber shared a photo on Instagram this week of himself visiting a temple in Tokyo, Japan.

The new twist on time travel is debuting Wednesday as part of the 'Street View' feature in Google's maps, a navigational tool that attracts more than 1 billion visitors each month.

Opening a four-country swing through the Asia-Pacific region, President Barack Obama is aiming to promote the U.S. as a committed economic, military and political partner, but the West's dispute with Russia over Ukraine threatens to cast a shadow over the president's sales mission.

Partners Toshiba and SanDisk have developed 15-nanometer process technology for NAND flash memory widely used in smartphones and tablets.

General Eiji Kimizuka, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff at the ground staff office in Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan and Maj.

In response to the municipal ordinance "Seishu de Kanpai Jorei," or toast with a cup of Japanese sake act, which took effect last year, "Kyoto Shikki Kogei Kyodo Kumiai," a cooperative association of Japanese lacquerware craftsmen, in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, has focused on producing lacquered "Guinomi," or large sake cups, which were rare before.

Drawing attention: Financial markets are keenly watching GPIF's investment strategy as the public pension fund, the world's biggest, is a huge investor and a bellwether for Japanese institutional investors.

April 22, 2014 - Toscotec has received an order from Oji Paper Co., Ltd.Japan for a TT SYD to be installed at its production site in Kasugai, Japan.

First solid-state vacuum UV phosphor, described in APL-Materials, promises smaller, safer, longer lasting, low power lamps for industrial applications WASHINGTON D.C., April 22, 2014 -- A team of researchers in Japan has developed a solid-state lamp that emits high-energy ultraviolet light at the shortest wavelengths ever recorded for such a ... (more)

Add Compagnie du Ponant to the list of cruise lines offering more sailings in Japan.

Actress Julia Roberts attends the 'Eat Pray Love' press conference at the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo on August 18, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.