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Ketchikan students get a taste of Japan

By MARJORIE CLARK - Associated Press

Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic returns a shot to Tatsuma Ito of Japan during their quarterfinal of Davis Cup World Group tennis at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Friday, April 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Czech Republic leads Japan 2-0 in Davis Cup

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A bronze statue of a young Korean girl in Central Park in Glendale, Calif. to honor so-called "comfort women" from World War II on Monday, March 31, 2014. Korean-Americans have won approval for local memorials for the victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II, over the objections of Japan. They have also pressed states to change school textbooks to address geographical differences with Japan. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

Virginia’s ‘East Sea’ textbook bill a nod to Korean Americans

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Toronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista watches the flight of the ball after hitting a pop up for an out during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla., Thursday, April 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Tanaka to make Yankees debut Friday

By IAN HARRISON - Associated Press

Kei Nishikori pulls out of Japan’s Davis Cup tie

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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright

SOWELL: Peering behind Obama’s foreign-policy curtain

By Thomas Sowell

A bronze statue of a young Korean girl in Central Park in Glendale, Calif. to honor so-called "comfort women" from World War II on Monday, March 31, 2014. Korean-Americans have won approval for local memorials for the victims of Japanese sexual slavery during World War II, over the objections of Japan. They have also pressed states to change school textbooks to address geographical differences with Japan. (AP Photo/Nick Ut )

Japan-Korea tussle over history spreads to US

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Shunsuke Ishii, the head of the committee set up to investigate allegations a widely heralded stem-cell research paper was fraudulent, speaks at a press conference on their findings in Tokyo Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Japanese government-funded laboratory Riken Center for Development Biology said Tuesday it found that data in the stem-cell research paper was falsified, holding the lead researcher responsible for the fabrication. They said researcher Haruko Obokata, the lead author of the paper in Nature, had manipulated or falsified images of DNA fragments used in the research. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Stem cell controversy sets back Japanese science

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

New ministry workers bow during a welcome ceremony for them at Defense Ministry in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Japan relaxed a decades-old ban on military-related exports Tuesday in a bid to expand joint arms development with allies and equipment sales to Southeast Asia and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan OKs easing of military-related exports

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this file photo taken on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014, and supplied by Sea Shepherd Australia on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, three dead minke whales lie on the deck of the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru, in the Southern Ocean. (AP Photo/Tim Watters, Sea Shepherd Australia)

World court: Japanese whaling not scientific

By Toby Sterling - Associated Press

In this September, 2013 photo, a minke whale is unloaded at a port after a whaling for scientific purposes in Kushiro, in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The International Court of Justice on Monday, March 31, 2014, ordered a temporary halt to Japan's Antarctic whaling program, ruling that it is not for scientific purposes as the Japanese had claimed. Australia had sued Japan at the U.N.'s highest court for resolving disputes between nations in hopes of ending whaling in the icy Southern Ocean. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

U.N. court orders Japan to halt annual whale hunt

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Gold medalist Mao Asada, left, of Japan and bronze medalist Carolina Kostner, right, of Italy pose for photographers with their national flag during an awarding ceremony of the women's figure skating event of the World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama near Tokyo, Saturday, March 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Mao Asada wins world championship title

By JIM ARMSTRONG - Associated Press

Hagel to host Asia meeting; travel to China, Japan

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

A man watches a TV news program showing the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. North Korea test-fired two medium-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, South Korea and the U.S. said, a defiant challenge to a rare three-way summit of its rivals Seoul, Tokyo and Washington that focused on the North's security threat.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea launches two ballistic missiles in defiant test

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Australian soccer player Brett Emerton raises the trophy before the Asian Football Confederation draw for the 2015 Asian Cup at the Sydney Opera House ground in Sydney, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Australia hosts the tournament that will be played in Jan. 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

South Korea drawn into Group A with host Australia

By KEIRAN SMITH - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye, participate in a trilateral meeting at the US Ambassador's Residence in the Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama brags about ‘changing the game’ on North Korea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, center, and two secret service agents are silhouetted as he walks toward Marine One helicopter upon arrival at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014. Obama will attend the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, POOL)

Japan-U.S. nuclear deal announced at Hague summit

By Toby Sterling and Juergen Baetz - Associated Press

This March 20, 2014 photo shows Tokyo-born architect Shigeru Ban, 56, the recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban wins Pritzker Prize

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, center rear, gathered with G7 world leaders clockwise from center left, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014, in the sidelines of the Nuclear security Summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, POOL)

Western nations, Japan move to isolate Russia as G-8 becomes G-7

By Julie Pace - Associated Press