Japan renames island of Iwo Jima
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The Japanese island of Iwo Jima, scene of a fierce World War II battle, regains its original name.
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MANO, SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army  sergeant who deserted to North Korea four decades ago will have  to wait a while to start a new life in his Japanese wife's home  town on the northern island of Sado.
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Tokyo - US army deserter Charles Jenkins, who spent nearly four decades in North Korea, finally saw freedom on Tuesday as he left a US base with his Japanese wife for a new home on a small island north of Tokyo.
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Out of respect for US troops fighting overseas, Missouri and Kansas are changing the name of their sports rivalry from &quot;Border War&quot; to &quot;Border Showdown.
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JAPAN lodged a formal protest with Beijing yesterday, claiming that a Chinese submarine had entered its territorial waters. Japanâs navy has been on alert since Wednesday when the submarine was first spotted off the island of Okinawa.
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Japan launched a satellite-based alert system Friday that will instantly send warnings of tsunamis and updates on volcanic activity to help speed evacuations, an emergency official said.
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Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu Islands south of Tokyo, a Japanese foreign ministry official said.
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TOKYO, Jan. 11 -- Japan's defense minister ordered the navy Friday to resume a U.S.-backed refueling mission in the Indian Ocean, ending a three-month hiatus but deepening divisions between the government and the opposition.
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Japan took a significant step away from the pacifism enshrined in its constitution yesterday when it announced new defence guidelines for the first time in nearly a decade.
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KARIWA, Japan  - A quake-hit Japanese city called in the head of Asia's biggest utility on Wednesday and ordered him to keep a nuclear plant closed until safety could be ensured after the tremor caused minor radiation leaks.
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LOS ANGELES  - In making "Flags of Our Fathers," released two months ago, Clint Eastwood said he was bothered that he was telling only half of the story of the vicious World War II battle for a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific in 1945. So he made another film. "Letters From Iwo Jima," shot with Japanese actors in their language, tells the story of the men who defended the island with their deaths.
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Japan yesterday named China and North Korea as causes for security concern as it instigated an overhaul of defence priorities to meet what it regards as the changing nature of global threats.
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US Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins yesterday gave himself up at an American army base in Japan. Picture:AP. US Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins gave himself up a US base in Japan
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A former US army sergeant who deserted to North Korea in the 1960s has arrived on a remote Japanese island to start what he said was the &quot;last chapter&quot; of his life with his wife and two daughters.
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Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik will rework the traditional New Year's address to the nation after the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe in Southeast Asia.
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Japan unveiled a revamped defense policy on Friday that eases a decades-old ban on arms exports and, in carefully couched words, suggests a shift from the purely defensive posture in place since its defeat in World War II.
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In a shift away from its postwar pacifism, Japan&#39;s government overhauled its defense guidelines today, easing an arms exports ban and singling out North Korea and China as security threats.