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- Tokyo Olympic organizers are putting āa few hundred-thousandā tickets into a lottery next month for Japan residents who were shut out.
- A former gold medalist has been elected to lead the Japanese Olympic Committee, which is mired in a scandal that forced the former president to step aside.
- I had the good fortune to meet Japan's now retired emperor, Akihito, more than 60 years ago at Haverford College at the beginning of my senior year.
- August 2018 marks 73 years since the end of the war against the Japanese empire.
- Performing Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "The Mikado," with its dated stereotypes of the Japanese characters, now causes controversy in some cities, something Baltimore's Young Victorian Theatre Company seeks to avoid as it prepares to stage the work.
- Taneytown artist Gail Wilson spent four years in Japan and honed her considerable skills while there.
- YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) ā A Halethorpe man is among the seven sailors who died when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan on Saturday, the U.S.
- In 1941, the Imperial Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as part of a plan to pre-empt any American
- Japan's only public English language channel began airing programs Tuesday on Maryland Public Television, including international news from Tokyo and lifestyle programs on Japanese society, politics, culture and food.
- Was Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's expression of regret and condolence at Pearl Harbor sufficient?
- Five open house meetings will be held in the next two weeks about a potential high-speed rail service that would shorten the 40-mile commute between Baltimore and Washington to 15 minutes, officials said.
- Before there was unconditional victory over Imperial Japan in World War II, there were some ignominious defeats. One of the worst took place on the Philippine island of Luzon where 25,000 U.S. soldiers supported and trained 100,000 Philippine troops.
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- U.S., Japan and other must learn from the past — and guard against a future nuclear war
- President Barack Obama will visit a memorial to the victims of the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima during World War II, the White House said Tuesday.
- Kerry's visit to Hiroshima is a necessary, if belated, step in reducing the nuclear threat
- Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, with the war already raging in Europe and Japan's increasing threat, plans were already being made for the internment of enemy aliens. The Alien Registration Act of 1940 required all aliens 14 and older to register with the government. What the military did not plan for, however, was a huge influx of captured prisoners of war being held in the continental United States. Fort Meade became a key location for both
- Seventy years ago today, Harford County residents erupted in celebration when they heard the news that Japan had surrendered to the Allies, bringing the United States' nearly four-year involvement in World War II, and the war itself, to an end.
- Seventy years ago Friday, President Harry Truman announced that Japan had agreed to surrender, inspiring the first V-J Day and signaling the end of World War II
- Matsuyama and Takako Chiba, 73, both survivors of the bombing in Hiroshima, visited Baltimore and Rockville as part of a trip to the U.S. with the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee Thursday. Yukie Ikebe and the Heartful Chorus sang "Amazing Grace" and Japanese songs during a commemoration celebration.
- Gov. Larry Hogan took a ride Thursday on Japan's high-speed magnetic levitation train and expressed enthusiastic interest in a technology that has been touted as a way to travel between Baltimore and Washington in 15 minutes. He announced Maryland would seek a $28 million grant to study the possibility of a Baltimore-Washington maglev line.
- Carroll veterans reflect on the war on Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
- Members of Laurel American Legion Post 60 will hold a ceremony to remember those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during World War II.
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