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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 .

Satoshi Nakajima and ZEPPELIN Inc. , recently launched their VideoShader app in the market.

The other day, we were going on and on about the lovely cherry blossoms set to show up very soon in Washington, DC, and today we still have the blooms of spring on our minds.

Showcasing different Asian cultures, traditions, art and their diversity, the 7th Asian Film Festival, an annual event of ACG club, was officially inaugurated on Monday at the Garden Residence of Matahiro Yamaguchi, Consul-General of Japan, in Jeddah.

Top South Korean and Japanese diplomats held talks in Seoul on Wednesday as the United States pushed its two key Asian allies to improve badly strained ties.

Toyota will raise its monthly base pay for workers by 2,700 yen on average, or about 0.8 percent of total monthly pay, marking the first increase in base wages in six years but falling short of its union's demand for a 4,000 yen increase.

People pray in front of a monument built to commemorate those who lost their lives in the disaster in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture.

I first saw " Nuclear Nation ," a haunting documentary about the Fukushima meltdown, at its New York premiere, late last year.

PAST AND PRESENT: Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe bows in front an altar for the victims of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the national memorial service in Tokyo on Tuesday Does Shinzo Abe love soldiers who died during World War II more than Japanese living today? The question might sound disrespectful.

Gunma Prefecture is a landlocked region in the Tokyo Regional Area, about 90 minutes northwest of the city of Tokyo by express train.

A Japanese government-funded laboratory said Tuesday it is considering retracting a research paper describing a simple way of turning ordinary cells from mice into stem cells.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to boost rebuilding efforts as the country marked the third anniversary Tuesday of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead, destroyed coastal communities and triggered a nuclear crisis.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been missing for more than 48hrs with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board - and authorities are desperately trying to establish exactly what happened to the plane.

Japan has the capital and needs to pull out of China, which has been its major destination.

Japan is marking the third anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing, turned coastal communities into wasteland and triggered a nuclear crisis.

Japan marks the third anniversary of the quake, tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear plant explosion today.

Three years after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, myriad problems from a shortage of concrete to bureaucratic red tape still plague the reconstruction of coastal areas of Japan's northern Tohoku region.