The sorrow, hope and longing of Japan’s ‘Missing Post Office’
An old post office in southern Japan has become a destination, both tourist and postal, for people who are not yet ready to let go of their loved ones.
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Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...
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The remote island that's strictly off limits to visitors - but it's not abandoned
Off-limits to visitors since 1956, this remote island in the Indian Ocean is far from abandoned—it's actually home to an indigenous tribe. North Sentinel Island, located in the Bay of Bengal and ...
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A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Japan's Izu Islands on Tuesday, the USGS said, triggering local weather authorities to issue a tsunami warning for the remote Pacific area off Tokyo.
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Japan’s strategic island airbase stalls, hurting its Taiwan crisis response
On a remote volcanic island south of Kyushu, Japan’s ambitious plan to build a cutting-edge military airbase has stalled. Mageshima, once a sleepy footnote of wartime history, was supposed to be ...