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The Russian occupying authorities suspended, for unknown reasons, the handling of citizens and vehicles crossing the administrative border with Crimea.

Japan’s beloved Emperor Akihito said his time to go is approaching, in a rare television address to the nation Monday. The 82-year-old monarch said that declining health has made it difficult for him to continue in his official capacity. Although he never used the word “abdicate,” Akihito made it clear that he will have to […]

A spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands.

A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan’s territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by a North Korean missile. The U.S. Strategic Command said North Korea fired two presumed Rodong missiles simultaneously, not just one. The command said […]

The man accused of fatally stabbing 19 people and injuring 20 more in a violent attack at a home for the disabled sent may have forecast the massacre in a rambling letter that was given to police in mid-February. Satoshi Uematsu, 26, who surrendered at a local police station after Tuesday’s attack, was a former […]

Update 18:30 EST: The death count has risen to 19 and the man reportedly was a former employee of the facility. Japan Times is reporting that the man confessed to the murders and turned himself into the police station 3 am local time. At 2:30 am local time, a 26-year-old unidentified man killed 15 and wounded […]

The 14-minute broadcast of two sets of numbers by a female voice appears to have been the work of the Voice of Korea (formerly Radio Pyongyang), a North Korean radio propaganda station that broadcasts accolades of the Kim family.

It claimed the flight was “timed to coincide with the U.S. official decision to deploy THAAD in South Korea.”

U.S. Marines assigned to Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct jump and recovery training at sea near, White Beach , Okinawa, Short Version https://youtu.be/6TCfk6TajRQ   Long Version https://youtu.be/0dIvoANuPHU   Featured Content – DVIDS

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The rockets’ red glare will be absent from Independence Day celebrations at U.S. military bases in Japan this year. The decision to go low key for the most patriotic American holiday — live bands were banned, too — is an extension of the monthlong “period of unity and mourning” that […]

From Associated Press reports: One of the last two surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders — who bombed Japan in an attack that stunned that nation and boosted U.S. morale — died in Montana on Wednesday. Retired Staff Sgt. David Jonathan Thatcher died Wednesday in a Missoula hospital. He was 94. He suffered a stroke […]

Japan’s military was on alert for a possible North Korean ballistic missile launch, a government source said on Tuesday, with media reporting its navy and anti-missile Patriot batteries have been told to shoot down any projectile heading for Japan. North Korea appeared to have moved an intermediate-range missile to its east coast, but there were […]