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Ueno, Gunma Pref., Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Victims of the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet were remembered at the mountainous accident site in eastern Japan on Wednesday, the 41st anniversary of the tragedy. From early in the morning, bereaved family

Seoul, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–South Korea’s Supreme Court on Wednesday finalized a lower court ruling ordering Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. to pay 80 million won, or about 9 million yen, in damages to the bereaved family of a South Korean wartime laborer.

(Adnkronos) – Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, during his visit to Tehran, conveyed a special message to the Iranian leadership from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, regarding the regional situation. Al-Arabiya reports this,

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–The head of the Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers, or JAM, has urged the Centrist Reform Alliance, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Komeito to draw up a clear vision on how to rise

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is expected to skip a visit to Tokyo’s war-related Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday, the anniversary of the country’s surrender in World War II, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. She is apparently

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–All Nippon Airways said Wednesday that it will lower fuel surcharges, added to airfares, for flights from Japan to North America and Europe by 10,000 yen to 55,000 yen for tickets to be issued in September and October.

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–Aeon Co. on Wednesday showed a plan to provide compensation early to relatives of tenant shop workers who died in an explosion that occurred at its shopping facility in Kumamoto Prefecture shortly after the July 28 major earthquake

(Adnkronos) – At least 15 people have died and 27 are missing after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Local authorities reported that the vessel, which provides transport service between the northern city of Kariba and several fishing villages, capsized

(Adnkronos) – Four Iranian drones have crashed in Iraq’s Erbil province. This was reported by the Kurdish news platform Rudaw, after it had reported that several missiles and drones had been launched by Tehran against Kurdish locations in the province. According to

Tokyo, Aug. 12 (Jiji Press)–An increasing number of young people in Japan, including those aged under 20, are seeking double eyelid surgery and other cosmetic treatments. At 17 clinics directly run by Kyoritsu Cosmetic Surgery, the proportion of patients aged 19 or