Japan war orphans win legal fight
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Japanese war orphans abandoned in China in 1945 are entitled to compensation, a court rules.
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TOKYO -- Japan scrambled yesterday to win the release of a 24-year-old Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, dispatching high-level diplomats to the Middle East and launching an appeal for his freedom on Arabic television.
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A supporter of 63 plaintiffs raises a banner saying &quot;unfair judgement&quot; outside the Chiba District Court in Chiba, Japan, Thursday Nov. 25, 2004.
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Japan&#39;s littlest princess turned three on Wednesday as authorities grappled with the issue of whether to make legal changes that would one day allow her ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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Japanese anti-war campaigners said they planned a "people's tribunal" over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that could symbolically hold the United States responsible for war crimes.
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TORONTO (CP) - Two brothers who lost their childhoods to a "systemic campaign of mistreatment and torture" for more than 13 years deserve better than to see their adoptive parents jailed for a mere nine months, a Crown attorney argued Friday.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Army deserter Charles Jenkins has started serving a 30-day sentence in Japan for abandoning his unit in 1965. Jenkins, 64, began serving his time at a US Naval detention center near Tokyo after tearfully pleading guilty to desertion.
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Seven people claiming to have defected from North Korea sought refuge in a Japanese school in Beijing on Friday, Japanese government officials said.
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An international animal welfare group brought a landmark legal case accusing Japan's last commercial whaling company of killing more than 400 whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Japan passed a law Wednesday to fund the reorganization of U.S. forces in Japan
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NIIGATA, Japan -- Megumi Yokota was walking home from badminton practice here in Niigata, on the northern coast of Japan, when North Korean agents grabbed the 13-year-old and packed her off to a waiting ship.
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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It isn't as though Hideki Matsui hasn't been in the middle of a baseball blood rivalry before. In Japan, the clan war between the Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Tigers has been going on for decades. It's just as lopsided (30 Central League titles for the Giants, 4 for the Tigers) and it even has its own curse.
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Earlier Tuesday Japan&#39;s Justice Ministry rejected his demand to stay in the country, saying no justification had been found to grant him protection as a political refugee.
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Toshiba on Tuesday underlined the growing determination of Japanese companies to protect their intellectual property rights, announcing legal action in Japan and the US against Hynix of South Korea for alleged infringement of its memory chip patents.
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Furor over the issue of war-era sex slaves highlighted yet again Japanâs unresolved history in the region.
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Japan has protested to North Korea and threatened to cut food aid after an incident involving the ashes of a Japanese woman. Tokyo&#39;s has accused Pyongyang of handing over other people&#39;s ashes to prove the