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Robert Kennedy confronts communist hecklers at Waseda University in 1962 Mar. 2 06:30 am JST Mar. 2 | 08:52 pm JST TOKYO On Feb. 4, 1962, 36-year-old U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel stepped off their plane at Haneda International Airport, the start of a six-day trip. During their flight, they’d practiced a welcome speech in Japanese, tutored by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer, who spoke fluent Japanese and had studied the country intensively over the years — his book on Japanese history informing Eleanor Roosevelt’s trip to Japa...

Commodore Perry’s black ships deliver a letter to Japan in July 1853 Jan. 28 06:51 am JST Jan. 29 | 10:58 am JST It wasn’t a surprise. As early as 1852, a Dutch agent in Nagasaki had given a report to high-level Japanese officials describing an expedition led by Matthew Calbraith Perry, consisting of “two steamships and two other ships.” Japan’s bakufu — the shogunate government in power for the last seven centuries —had limited their trading to China, Korea, Holland and the Ryukyu Island chain. Fourteen years earlier they’d received a similar report, stating th...

Diversity of our changing nation and guarantee our citizens the unfettered right to vote and to have every vote count. leader pelosi has granted me the opportunity to create the record necessary to satisfy the 2013 supreme court decision in shelby county versus holder so that the protections of the voting rights act will be reinstated and improved. shortly after that announcement, pelosi's office put out a statement she will be on a house committee on elections. fudge's decision to back out of the race and back pelosi is a major blow to the efforts of a group of moderate house democrats lookin...

Representative marcia fudge of ohio, the one member of congress who was openly considering challenging nancy pelosi, announced today she will not be making a bid for the speaker's gavel after all. in a statement announcing her decision, representative fudge threw her support behind pelosi as the next speaker, writing, our party should reflect the diversity of our changing nation and guarantee our citizens the unfettered right to vote and to have every vote count. leader pelosi has granted me the opportunity to create the record necessary to satisfy the 2013 supreme court decision in shelby cou...

On her team, she is the leading rusher on her junior team so far. she has gone for over 1,900 yards this season. you go, girl. >> and she scored 35 touchdowns. talking heisman, heiswoman numbers. enjoy it while you can. samantha. you'll meet her this morning on "good morning america." making the boys run after her already. >> that's right. that's right. good for her. check out the interview later on "gma." sounds good. well, coming up, we're not done with the election just yet. we'll take a look inside our changing nation next. and "the skinny" and roseanne barr, and the guy once called jo...