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Japan TV station apologizes for US video seen as offensive

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku, fourth from left, attends an extraordinary board meeting on the next Spring Sumo Tournament in Osaka, western Japan, Sunday, March 1, 2020. On Sunday, national broadcaster NHK reported that officials of the Japan Sumo Associating decided to hold the March 8-22 spring grand sumo tournament in Osaka with no spectators. (Yosuke Mizuno/Kyodo News via AP)

Spring sumo meet to be held with no fans amid virus fears

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This Monday, Aug. 19, 2019, photo shows journals and notebooks kept by Michiji Tajima, a former top Imperial Household Agency, in Tokyo. Japan’s wartime Emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about World War II and tried, although unsuccessfully, to include the word “remorse” in his 1952 speech, documents obtained by NHK TV show. The records of conversations spanning nearly five years with Hirohito were kept by Tajima who took office after the war. (Kyodo News via AP)

New documents show Japan’s wartime emperor had deep regrets

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Japanese public broadcaster NHK says Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc is certain to secure up

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Japanese broadcaster NHK says Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn arrested on suspicion of financial miscon

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Two persons walk in front of security check counters at a quiet Haneda international airport in Tokyo following the cancellations of flights Saturday, July 28, 2018. Heavy rain is falling on parts of Japan and airlines have canceled flights as the approaching Typhoon Jongdari threatens to dump more rain on a region devastated by floods and landslides earlier this month. (Kyodo News via AP)/Kyodo News via AP)

Tropical storm hits Japan, heads for hard-hit western region

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A smartphone shows Tuesday's NHK television's news website saying &quot;North Korea appears to have fired a missile,&quot; &quot;The government: Seek shelter inside buildings and basements,&quot; second from top, in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. The Japan's public broadcaster mistakenly sent an alert on Tuesday warning citizens of a North Korean missile launch and urging them to seek immediate shelter, then minutes later corrected it, top, days after a similar error in Hawaii. The message at top reads: &quot;The flash of North Korea's missile launch was a mistake.&quot; (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japanese public TV says staffer sent missile alert in error

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this June 3, 2017, file photo, Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada speaks at the second plenary session at the 2017 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense and security forum in Asia, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Joseph Nair)

Reports: Japan defense chief to quit over document cover-up

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 5, 2013, file photo, Takafumi Horie, the Japanese dot.com celebrity imprisoned for nearly two years on securities fraud charges, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Japan's public broadcaster NHK apologized Wednesday, July 12, 2017, over a cartoon with Adolph Hitler's face that was printed on a T-shirt worn by a talk show guest. The black T-shirt worn by entrepreneur Horie also carried a &quot;No war&quot; message on one side and a peace symbol on a lapel. The T-shirt has prompted complaints from viewers. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

Japan TV sorry over Hitler T-shirt worn by talk show guest

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This aerial view shows damaged houses in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on April 15, 2016, a day after a magnitude-6.5 earthquake. More than 100 aftershocks from the first earthquake continued to rattle the region as businesses and residents got a fuller look at the widespread damage from the unusually strong quake, which also injured about 800 people. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan earthquake: Tsunami advisory issued

By Emily Wang and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Japan's public broadcaster NHK President Katsuto Momii speaks during a budget committee question and answer at the lower house of Parliament in Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appointment of new board members at Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has invited skepticism among many people that his motive may be to use the news giant to promote his nationalist agenda. Sure enough, minutes of a recent NHK governing board meeting suggest they were trying to exercise influence over programs. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Conservatives push agenda at Japan’s public TV

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, Katsuto Momii, new president of public broadcaster NHK, holds a news conference at the start of his three-year term in Tokyo. Japan's top government spokesman Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga defended Momii for his remarks that the use of women as military prostitutes was common worldwide during World War II. NHK chairman Momii told a news conference Saturday to mark his appointment that &quot;comfort women&quot; existed in any country at war, not just Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Japan NHK boss under fire for comfort women remark

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Giant squid captured on video in ocean depths

By MALCOLM FOSTER - Associated Press

Giant squid filmed in ocean depths for 1st time

By MALCOLM FOSTER - Associated Press

A 9-foot giant squid takes the bait in the deep sea off Japan's Chichi island in this image made from video recorded in the summer of 2012. (AP Photo/NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel)

9-foot giant squid captured on video in ocean depths

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A boy slips his grandmother's vote into a ballot box at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Conservative LDP party wins in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will get a second chance to lead the nation after a stint in 2006 and 2007. (Associated Press)

Abe’s conservative party likely to win in landslide in Japan

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press

Flames rise from houses and debris half submerged in tsunami in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Hundreds killed in tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake

By Malcolm Foster - Associated Press