People praying at Hiroshima’s Memorial Cenotaph yesterday for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing. Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic attacks, which claimed 140,000 lives in Hiroshima.PHOTO: REUTERS TOKYO • Japan
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Australia sends navy ships, divers after aircraft crash, three US Marines missing
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey aircraft land on the deck of the USS Bonhomme Richard amphibious assault ship off Sydney MELBOURNE: The Australian government said on Sunday it would deploy its armed forces to
Read moreMagnitude 5.8 quake hits off Japan’s Honshu
SYDNEY: An earthquake with an initial magnitude of 5.8 hit northeast of Tokyo off Japan’s main island of Honshu on Thursday (Jul 20), the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) and the USGS reported. The quake,
Read moreNorth Korea fires Scud-class ballistic missile, Japan protests
SEOUL: North Korea fired what appeared to be a short-range ballistic missile on Monday that landed in the sea off its east coast, the latest in a series of missile tests defying world pressure and
Read moreN. Korea test-fires missile, challenging new leader in South
SEOUL – North Korea on Sunday test-launched a ballistic missile that flew as far as 800 kilometeres before landing in the Sea of Japan, the South Korean, Japanese and US militaries said. The launch is
Read moreJapan ATM scam using fraudulent cards nets $12.7m
Cash worth 1.4bn yen ($13m; £8.8m) has been taken from cash machines in Japan using credit cards created with data stolen from a South African bank. The money was withdrawn in less than three hours
Read moreBarack Obama to visit Hiroshima on Japan and Vietnam trip
Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month – the first serving US president to travel to the Japanese city since it was hit by a US nuclear bomb in 1945. The visit will be
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