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Celaya, an industrial city in the heart of Mexico, now has a Japanese language class where the teacher uses honorifics, addressing her students as "Felipe-san" or "Christian-san."

What's been said of confession - that it is good for one's soul but bad for one's reputation - can... This photo shows a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner leaving the gate at Narita international airport in Chiba prefecture, suburban Tokyo.

Tens of thousands marched and rallied in Tokyo and other Japanese cities on Sunday to mark this week's anniversary of the initial Fukushima nuclear disaster and delivering a message to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and parliament that they will not tolerate a restart of the nation's reactors, calling for a future of renewable energy instead.

Members of the ground crew at Naval Air Station Fallon prepare F/A-18C Hornet strike fighters in 2010 for flights.

On March 18, 2011, an official from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Chuck Casto, called together the NRC delegation on assignment with him in Tokyo.

A Boeing 777 pilot flying 30 minutes from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane told the New Straits Times in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia that he made contact with MH370 minutes after Vietnamese air traffic control asked him to message the plane.

Howard County has a new spelling bee champion. Megan Rabe, 13, an eighth-grader at Clarksville Elementary School, was the last speller standing after nearly 300 words and four hours of competition at the 10th annual Howard County Library System Spelling Bee Friday night at Reservoir High School in Fulton.

Foodies have most likely already heard of At.mosphere, a marvelous restaurant perched atop the 122nd floor of Dubai's Burj Khalifa.

With Ukrainian tensions mounting, the notion that such regional conflicts could morph into something nuclear is now dogging Western leaders in a way not seen in a generation.

Koriyama, Japan Marches have taken place in Japan to mark the third anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing and devastated local infrastructure.

Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto says that he is not the creator of bitcoin, adding further mystery to the story of how the world's most popular digital currency came to be.

Kouki Watanabe isn't your typical Japanese college student. He has a special skill: He can make the English alphabet with his face.

The company will inspect about 40 airplanes and delay some 787 deliveries after , which makes the plane's carbon fiber wing , discovered small cracks in newly built wings following a change in its manufacturing process, Boeing said Friday.

Taipei, March 7 The Taiwanese baseball film "Kano" received a standing ovation at the movie's international premiere at the Osaka Asian Film Festival on Friday.

Our world's oldest woman Misao Okawa celebrated her 116th birthday Wednesday at a nursing home in Osaka, western Japan.

Japanese lecturers Yoshiaki Yoshimi , professor at Chuo University, Hiroshi Hayashi , professor at Kanto Gakuin University, and Rumiko Nishino , co-representative of the Violence Against Women in War Research Action Center, attend a gathering of academics and human rights activists in Tokyo on March 7, 2014.

Periodic reports of highly-contaminated water leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan continue to feed anti-nuclear campaigners.

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe about the situation in Ukraine and agreed that Russia's intervention there threatened world peace, the White House said on Thursday.

In an exclusive two-hour interview with The Associated Press, Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, 64, said he had never heard of Bitcoin until his son told him he had been contacted by a Newsweek reporter three weeks ago.

After the earthquake and tsunami, an SH-60B helicopter assigned to the Chargers of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 14 from Naval Air Facility Atsugi flew over the city of Sendai to deliver more than 1,500 pounds of food to survivors.