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Spectators look at planes used by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team during an aviation festival at the ASDF base in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Higashimatsushima on Sunday, following a two-year suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
TOKYO -- Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) announced Nov. 19 it is planning to compensate owners for damage to their cars sustained in August when
The 44-hectare village in Harumi has opened a week before the start of the Paralympic Games as the first delegations arrive in Japan.
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 1964, file photo, Emperor Hirohito, background, reads prepared speech as he formally opened the 47th extraordinary Diet (parliament) in Tokyo. Every Japanese of a certain age has memories of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Emperor Naurhito, whose grandfather Emperor Hirohito opened the Games, has his own memories. He was a 4 1/2 year-old child at the time and reminisced last week with guests, including American first lady Jill Biden. “I myself have a lasting memory of the closing ceremony of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where athletes from different countries paraded together s...
TOKYO (AP) — From Emperor Naruhito on down, every Japanese of a certain age remembers the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Even younger Japanese connect through parents or aunts and uncles who stored old photos, told stories or recalled getting a television set for the first time to watch the Games. These were the first Olympics broadcast live using satellites and the last to be run on a cinder track; a bridge between older Olympics and the modern. There are recollections of new bullet trains, urban expressways going up — not all of them completed for the Games — and complaints about cost overruns,...