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This photo shows a fishing port where a tour boat which went missing, left for tour in Shari, in the northern island of Hokkaido Saturday, April 23, 2022. A tour boat with 26 people aboard was missing in rough waters off northern Japan on Saturday after issuing a distress call and reporting to be sinking, the coast guard said. (Kyodo News via AP)

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Tour boat with 26 aboard missing in frigid Japan waters
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Sat,04/23/22-6:28AM , 206 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — A tour boat with 26 people aboard was missing in the frigid waters of northern Japan on Saturday, hours after sending a distress call that it was sinking, the coast guard said.
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Sasha Kaverina, right, buys medicine in Romania for displaced Ukrainians on March 26, 2022. As millions of Ukrainians fled their country, a longtime Tokyo resident did the opposite. Kaverina left her life in Japan and rushed to Ukraine to rescue her parents after a Russian missile hit their apartment building. (Courtesy of Alina Anokhina via AP)

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Ukrainian in Japan returns home to help parents, country
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Tue,04/12/22-8:29PM , 183 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — As millions of Ukrainians fled their country, a longtime Tokyo resident did the opposite. Sasha Kaverina left her life in Japan and rushed to Ukraine to rescue her parents after a Russian missile hit their apartment building.
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Film director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, with actor Hidetoshi Nishijima and producer Akihisa Yamamoto, unseen, speaks during a news conference on their award winning film "Drive My Car" in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Japan's "Drive My Car" has won an Oscar for best international feature. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

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Director of 'Drive My Car' surprised by Oscar, popularity
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Tue,04/05/22-8:09AM , 230 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi says he was surprised by the international popularity of his Oscar-winning film “Drive My Car,” but attributes it to the universality of the short story by Haruki Murakami on which it is based.
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A Japanese white-eye, also known as Mejiro, drinks the nectar of a cherry blossom in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. People across Japan are celebrating the peak cherry blossom viewing season this week without COVID-19 restrictions in place for the first time in two years, but many people strolled under the trees to enjoy flowers and falling petals rather than drinking and eating at sit-down parties. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

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AP PHOTOS: Japan enjoys peak cherry blossoms, but no party
By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press
Thu,03/31/22-6:01AM , 510 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — People are celebrating Japan's peak cherry blossom viewing season without COVID-19 restrictions for the first time in two years. But many are strolling under the trees rather than drinking and eating in traditional party style.
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