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Manabe reappointed Okinawa Defense Bureau chief
Kyodo Ro Manabe will be reappointed chief of the Okinawa Defense Bureau in the wake of the November sacking of Satoshi Tanaka over inflammatory remarks he made in a bar more »
Animal of pray
Apparently, Conan also prays before going out for walks, or before feeding time. Conan was named after the mystery writer, Arthur Conan Doyle. Not, sadly, Conan the Barbarian. Conan the more »
Missing U.S. case in Japan may be suicide
(CNN) — The husband of an American woman, who has been missing for six weeks in Japan, said Thursday that she had threatened to kill herself the night she disappeared more »
Researchers: Human bone in Okinawa is 24,000 years old
Experts excavate ruins of a community in Ishigaki island. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) ISHIGAKI, Okinawa Prefecture–A 24,000-year-old human bone fragment discovered in a cave on this island is the oldest more »
