US Air Force member charged with kidnapping and raping Japanese schoolgirl
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Rescuers seek to bring down bodies found on Japan’s Mount Fuji
TOKYO (AP) — Three bodies were found inside a crater at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan’s most famous mountain, with one of them already brought down from the slopes, police said Thursday.
Death threats against Tokyo governor candidates reflect societal ‘frustration’ in Japan
Fax messages were sent on Monday to the office of the Tokyo First Party, to which Governor Yuriko Koike serves as a special adviser, and the office of a member of the group representing the city’s Toshima ward.
Japanese men’s top goal in Paris is beating China for gymnastics team gold
TOKYO – Having missed the men’s gymnastics team title by a hair at the Tokyo Olympics, Japan are determined to beat their biggest rivals China to take gold in Paris, setting that as their top priority with less than one month left to go until the Games begin.
Hong Kong needs more than an incinerator to achieve its zero waste goal
An incinerator is not a waste disposer. Incineration serves to reduce mass and volume. There is still the problem of the non-combustible waste residue, which is almost 10 per cent of the original volume. This is where a landfill is useful – to bury the output from the incineration process, inert bottom ash.