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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Key members of Japan's Defense Ministry and troops were wary in 2011 that the U.S. military would take control of the response to the

Justin Zhu started his career as a software engineer at Twitter in 2011. Justin Zhu, chief executive officer of digital marketing startup Iterable Inc., was walking down Broadway in San Francisco on April 26 when he was summoned to a surprise conference call and abruptly fired. His co-founder, Andrew Boni, and the company's entire board told him he was losing his job, primarily because he had taken LSD before a meeting in 2019. The incident had indeed happened-Zhu says he was trying to take a small dose to improve his focus and accidentally took too much-but he also was being fired for other ...

John Roos, then U.S. Ambassador to Japan, shakes hands with children at Kawamata Minami Elementary School in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2012. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos will never forget spearheading a highly stressful emergency response as the United States lent a helping hand following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.  But the thing that stands out most in his mind even after the passing of 10 years is the “incredible strength and resilience” of the people in the Tohoku region, he said. Roos, ...

Present and past US envoys to Japan have sent a video message, expressing solidarity with the Japanese people on the 10th anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami.

Mar 11, 2021 Irene Hirano Inouye dedicated her life to major philanthropic and social causes in America, but perhaps her greatest legacy is her role in strengthening the U.S.-Japan relationship, including support for Tohoku’s recovery and an initiative created to benefit young people in the aftermath of the earthquake. Irene Hirano Inouye | KYODO A sansei, she served as the founding CEO and president of the Japanese American National Museum for 20 years. Her own family’s history in America was shaped by the country’s wartime internment of Japanese Americans, including her pater...