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Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, a People's Honor Award recipient who rose to stardom for his on-field exploits ...

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It was in the late spring of 1955 that Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene first traveled to northeastern Japan's Tohoku ...

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Police searching for a driver who left two children inside a vehicle that crashed through the side of a bridge and fell onto ...