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The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. Japan's former Emperor Akihito hospitalized for heart checkup TOKYO - Japan's former Emperor Akihito was admitted to a Tokyo ...

The Blue Impulse team, formally the "11th Squadron," belongs to the 4th Air Wing at the ASDF Matsushima Base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. As a dedicated unit to publicize the ASDF's ...

The Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatics team will make a performance flight for the World Exposition in Osaka on its opening day of April 13. "This is a crucial opportunity to show ...

The trip, organized by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, sent its first group of LHS students in March, and the second group of students recently returned from Higashimatsushima, Japan.

Selected cohort members will participate in training sessions on Maui, followed by a week-long trip to Higashimatsushima in the Tohoku region of Japan. Cohort members will learn about disaster ...

TOMODACHI Kibou for Maui students at the program’s opening reception in Higashimatsushima, Japan, are, top row, Mia Kosianowski, left, Jazmin Mathias, Sabrina Calma, Taika Swearingen ...

The northeastern Tohoku region features one design for each of the six prefectures there: Aomori City (Aomori Prefecture), Akita City (Akita Prefecture), Kamaishi (Iwate), Higashimatsushima (Miyagi), ...

A woman in her 50s who lost a family member in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, says she "tenses up" before the alarm rings. A friend of hers, in the same situation, will run to the restroom at ...

The woman was from Higashimatsushima, which was inundated by the 10 metre high wave that followed the earthquake - one of the strongest ever-recorded [File: Jiji Press] Published On 5 Mar 20215 ...

(Kyodo News via AP, File) FILE - In this March 20, 2020, file photo, Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori carries the Olympic flame during the Flame Arrival Ceremony at Japan Air Self-Defense Force ...

For example, the city of Higashimatsushima began building seven all-new communities for displaced residents. Image credit: Reprinted by permission from ref. 6, Springer Nature: Natural Hazards, ...