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Japan’s top automaker Toyota acknowledges more certification cheating and apologizes

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

This photo shows a sign of a newly built plant to be run by Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (JASM), a subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), in Kikuyo town, a suburb of Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. TSMC opened Saturday in an official ceremony its first semiconductor plant in Japan as part of its ongoing global expansion. JASM is set to be up and running later this year (Kyodo News via AP)

Taiwan giant chipmaker TSMC opens first plant in Japan as part of key global expansion

Associated Press

Couples from around the world attend a mass wedding ceremony at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Feb. 7, 2020. South Korean and foreign couples exchanged or reaffirmed marriage vows in the Unification Church's mass wedding arranged by Hak Ja Han Moon, wife of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church. The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revealed long-suspected, little-talked-of links between him and the Unification Church. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Unification Church vows to fight ‘biased’ disbandment request

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Local protesters and South Korean lawmakers hold banners against Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, during a rally in front of the Prime Minister's office Monday, July 10, 2023, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan defends neutrality of IAEA report on Fukushima water release plan as minister visits plant

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

LGBTQ activists in Japan launch engagement group ahead of G7

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this May 9, 2021, file photo, people who are against the Tokyo 2020 Olympics set to open in July, march to protest around Tokyo's National Stadium during an anti-Olympics demonstration. Public sentiment in Japan has been generally opposed to holding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. This is partly based of fears the coronavirus will spike as almost 100,000 people — athletes and others — enter for both events.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) **FILE**

Coronavirus fears stir opposition to Olympics

By Stephen Wade and Kantaro Komiya - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, photo, the Olympics rings are reflected on the window of a hotel restaurant as a server with a mask sets up a table, in the Odaiba section of Tokyo. The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated. This of course is spilling over to concerns about the postponed Tokyo Olympics that open in just over three months.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Will Japanese Olympians be vaccinated ahead of the public?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Japanese Vaccine Minister Taro Kono wearing a face mask with Japanese and EU flags on it speaks during an interview in Tokyo, Monday, March 29, 2021. Kono tasked with COVID-19 vaccinations urged the EU to ensure stable shipment of Pfizer vaccines amid distribution uncertainty in a country where the Olympics are coming up in four months. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

AP Interview: Japan urges EU to ensure stable vaccine export

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020, file photo, shows tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics displayed in Tokyo. Many fans living outside Japan who bought Tokyo Olympic tickets from middlemen - so-called Authorized Ticket Resellers - will not get full refunds. The question of refunds came into play a week ago when local organizers and the Japanese government decided to bar fans from abroad because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Overseas Tokyo ticket holders may get only partial refunds

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean woman who was sexually enslaved by Japan's World War II military, weeps during a press conference at the Press Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Lee called for the leaders of both countries to settle an impasse over the issue by seeking judgment from the International Court of Justice. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

S. Korean sexual slavery survivor wants UN court judgment

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this March 30, 2020, file photo, a man jogs past the Olympic rings in Tokyo.It’s been six months since the Tokyo Olympics were postponed until next year by the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone from new Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to IOC President Thomas Bach have tried to assure the Japanese public and deep-pocketed sponsors that the Olympics will take place. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tokyo Olympics Q&A: Should athletes be priority for vaccine?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Kazumi Matsui, right, mayor of Hiroshima, and the family of the deceased bow before they place the victims list of the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima Memorial Cenotaph during the ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, in Hiroshima, western Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Survivors mark 75th anniversary of world’s 1st atomic attack

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Former South Korean comfort woman Lee Ok-seon, center, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. A Seoul court on Wednesday began hearing a long-awaited civil case filed against the Japanese government by South Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's World War II military brothels. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean court begins trial over Japan’s sexual slavery

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 20, 1995, file photo, subway passengers affected by sarin nerve gas in the central Tokyo subway trains are carried into St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo. Japanese media reports say on Friday, July 6, 2018, doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara, who has been on death row for masterminding the 1995 deadly Tokyo subway gassing and other crimes, has been executed. He was 63. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo, File)

Cult leader executed for Japan sarin attacks still a mystery

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second right, speaks during a meeting of Cabinet ministers on a new national stadium construction plan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at Abe's official residence in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. At right is Toshiaki Endo, minister in charge of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Japan has selected a new design for the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after scrapping an earlier plan as too costly. Prime Minister Abe announced Tuesday that the winner is a design by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, construction company Taisei Corp. and Azusa design office.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Japan approves $1.5b deal for new Tokyo Olympic stadium

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Yong Soo Lee, of South Korea speaks to reporters on the West Lawn of Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 28, 2015, Yong Soo Lee is one of dozens of surviving "comfort women" from Korea other Asian countries that were forced into sexual servitude by Japanese troops. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

JUNGSIL LEE: The Future of the ‘Comfort Women’ Movement in Korea

By Dr. Jungsil Lee

Yong Soo Lee, of South Korea is seen of the West Lawn of the Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Yong Soo Lee is one of dozens of surviving comfort women from Korea other Asian countries that were forced into sexual servitude by Japanese troops. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

EDITORIAL: Justice for Japan’s ‘comfort women’ of World War II

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Nago city Mayor Susumu Inamine and his wife Ritsuko cast their ballots in the mayoral election in Nago, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. The small-town mayoral election is being closely watched from Washington to Tokyo as a referendum on long-delayed plans to move a U.S. air base to the community of 62,000 people. Inamine, who opposes the move, faces pro-relocation candidate Bunshin Suematsu in the election. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

Japan says US base in Okinawa is only solution

By YURIKO NAGANO - Associated Press

Cesium levels in fish off Fukushima not dropping

By MALCOLM FOSTER - Associated Press

Cesium in fish off Fukushima not declining

By MALCOLM FOSTER - Associated Press