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This handout photo taken on June 8, 2025 and received on June 12, 2025 from Japan's Ministry of Defence shows a J-15 fighter jet from the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong making an unusual approach to a Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force P-3C patrol aircraft that was conducting surveillance above the Pacific Ocean.
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Japan says Chinese fighter jet came within 150 feet of surveillance plane above Pacific
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The city skyline is seen as the Tokyo Tower looms in the background in Tokyo on September 11, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Japan’s annual births fall to record low as population emergency deepens
Respectable without receptacles: Japan maintains cleanliness despite a lack of public trash cans.
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Georgette Chen. Self-Portrait. c. 1934.
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A water tower at the US Steel Edgar Thomson Works steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
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Trump called it a disaster. Biden blocked it. Now Trump is traveling to Pittsburgh to celebrate Japan’s takeover of US Steel
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China imposes anti-dumping duties on industrial plastics
She escaped an avalanche and became the first woman to summit Everest. Today, few remember her name
Three Chinese nationals arrested in Japan after thousands of protected hermit crabs found in suitcases
America’s trading partners have a massive bazooka in the trade war. They may never use it
Japan’s former Emperor Akihito to be hospitalized for heart tests, NHK reports
Four-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka wins first title since becoming a mother
Children aged 14 or younger now make up less than 12% of this country’s population
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