Poor ships, not divine hand, saved Japan from Mongolian invasion
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Science has dealt a blow to a Japanese legend which says the country was twice saved from a Mongolian fleet thanks to a "divine wind," or kamikaze, that destroyed the invaders' ships.
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Japan was on edge after powerful earthquakes left 17 people dead or missing, injured hundreds and derailed a bullet train for the first time in history, within days of the country's worst typhoon in a quarter century.
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Japan's Coast Guard Sunday dispatched patrol ships and aircraft after spotting a boat carrying Chinese activists to a group of disputed islands claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan.
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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Japan is preparing to mobilise troops to deal with wild animals such as boars, bears and monkeys.
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Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesman,    Hatsuhisa Takashima , said here last week that his country had been active in the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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Japan uses a ship-based defence system to shoot down a ballistic missile, the first such test by a US ally.
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One missing in Antarctica's Ross Sea Japanese whaling ship the Nisshin Maru - currently in Antarctica's Ross Sea - has been partially evacuated following a fire, the BBC reports.â¦
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Japan&#39;s relationship with North Korea had never been an easy one. During the long Cold War period the two adversaries were locked in verbal battles, in which North Korea was always on the offensive by accusing
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Wearing a white windbreaker to protect him from the Siberian wind, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stood on the bridge of a Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat on Thursday
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet
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Japan's ruling party forces through a bill reviving a support mission for US-led forces in Afghanistan.
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Japanâs ruling party was expected to push into law a bill to revive a naval mission to support U.S.-led forces.
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Navy Self-defence force in 100-mile-high skeet shoot Japan has become the second nation to acquire functioning ballistic-missile defence equipment, carrying out a successful shootdown yesterday. A target rocket representing a medium-range enemy missile was engaged and destroyed 100 miles above the Pacific by a Standard SM-3 interceptor fired from a Japanese warship, JS Kongo. The target took off from the US Navy missile range facility on Kauai, Hawaii.â¦
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Mongol hordes, Japanese soldiers and Red Guards -- China's Great Wall has seen them all off in its more than 2,000-year history.
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Japan's prime minister failed on Tuesday to win the main opposition leader's agreement to extend a naval mission backing U.S.-led Afghan operations, activities Washington says are vital to the fight against terrorism.