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New York, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–Twelve-year-old violinist Sora Iwai from earthquake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, performed at Carnegie Hall in New York after winning the top prize in the under-18 division of an international music competition. Iwai, an elementary school sixth grader

New York, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–Twelve-year-old violinist Sora Iwai from earthquake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, performed at Carnegie Hall in New York after winning the top prize in the under-18 division of an international music competition. Iwai, an elementary school sixth grader

Nagano, Aug. 10 (Jiji Press)–Shuichi Abe won a fifth term as governor of the central Japan prefecture of Nagano in an election Sunday, defeating his sole contender. Abe, 65, won support mainly from prefectural assembly members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party

Tokyo, Aug. 10 (Jiji Press)–Japan’s public and private sectors are stepping up joint efforts to revive the nation’s struggling shipbuilding industry. Last year, the transport ministry drew up a road map for revitalizing Japan’s shipbuilding sector, setting a target of doubling shipbuilding

Tokyo, Aug. 10 (Jiji Press)–The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, the country’s only national organization of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors and the 2024 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, marked on Monday 70 years since its

Nagasaki, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–About 250 people joined a memorial mass held at Urakami Cathedral in the city of Nagasaki on Sunday, which marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. At the cathedral, many Christians

Nagasaki, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–About 250 people joined a memorial mass held at Urakami Cathedral in the city of Nagasaki on Sunday, which marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. At the cathedral, many Christians

Tokyo, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–The U.S. Forces Japan on Sunday airlifted a total of about 33,000 bottles of drinking water for victims of a recent powerful earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. A KC-130 aircraft of the U.S. military transported the

Nagasaki, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–Many people gathered at a park in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sunday to mourn the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city exactly 81 years ago, wish for the abolition of nuclear weapons

Nagasaki, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki in this year’s peace declaration on Sunday reiterated the atomic-bombed city’s call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, describing them as an absolute evil. The theory of nuclear deterrence, advocated mainly by nuclear weapons