Hayashi
As a small ensemble typically consisting of a flutist and three drummers, the hayashi is the main source of music for Japanese festivals. The term refers to both the musical accompaniment and ...
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Researchers of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa agree that the
Japanese military ''forced and steered'' civilians in Okinawa to
commit mass suicide during the only full-scale ground battle in Japan...
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Police in Aichi Prefecture served a fresh arrest warrant Friday
on a 50-year-old former gangster on suspicion of shooting a police
officer to death during a shooting spree last month at his h...
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Police on Saturday began investigating the scene of a 29-hour
standoff in Aichi Prefecture in which a former gangster shot dead a
riot police office...
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Yuko Mitsuya, a women's volleyball bronze medalist in the 1984
Los Angeles Olympics, was dismissed as president of Ten-Arrows Co., a
door-to-door women's underwear sales f...
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A tense standoff between police and an armed man holding a woman
hostage in a private residence in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, entered
its second day Friday mor...
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National Public Safety Commission Chairman Kensei Mizote said
Friday Japanese police will reexamine special assault team gear after
the first death of an on-duty officer in a hostage crisis i...
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Policemen continued to surround a private residence in Nagakute,
Aichi Prefecture, early Friday as an armed man kept holing up with a
woman believed to be his wife for more than half a day.
...
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Police sent to prosecutors Sunday a former gangster in Aichi
Prefecture on suspicion of attempting to murder two of his children
and a police officer in the Thursday-Friday shooting spree at ...
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Police sent to prosecutors Sunday a former gangster in Aichi
Prefecture on suspicion of attempting to murder two of his children
and a police office...
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Documents admitted in the 1946-1948 Tokyo war crimes tribunal
show that the Japanese military forced women in occupied Asian
regions into prostitution for its soldiers during World War II, a ...
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Hayashi
Military 'forced, steered' Okinawa civilians to commit suicide
