Andrew Harnik / AP As Left Frets Over Asian Stereotyping, Biden Calls Masters Winner 'Japanese Boy' Think Joe Biden would be put under the microscope by the media for a potentially problematic comment? Think again. By C. Douglas Golden April 17, 2021
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Why Is Kamala Harris, Instead of Joe Biden, Meeting with Japanese PM? Some of Kamala Harris' foreign policy responsibilities sound an awful lot like what Joe Biden is supposed to be doing. By Garion Frankel April 16, 2021
Charly Triballeau - AFP / Getty Images International Fans Will Be Banned from Entering Japan for Olympics 'Solely as spectators for watching games - no, they will not be allowed to make an entry,' an Olympics organizing committee executive said. By Jack Davis March 20, 2021
Martin Bernetti - AFP / Getty Images With Olympics in Jeopardy, Florida Offers to Step Up and Save the Day Florida is offering to step in and save the Olympics if officials in Japan postpone the 2020 games for another year. By Kipp Jones January 28, 2021
WCCO-TV / Facebook After 68 Years, WWII Vet Has Realization About Japanese Sword He Claimed as a War Trophy A 94-year-old World War II veteran decided to return his war trophy to its original owner. What happened next was very powerful. By Michael Austin December 25, 2020
Charly Triballeau - AFP / Getty Images October Suicide Deaths in Japan Outnumber All COVID Deaths During the Pandemic The biggest increase came among women: The number of female suicides surged by 82.6 percent from the same period last year. By Jack Davis November 30, 2020
Eugene Hoshiko / Pool / AFP via Getty Images Pompeo Rallies Alliance of Nations Against Growing Chinese Aggression Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with officials from Japan, Indonesia and Australia to discuss Chinese aggression in the Pacific. By The Associated Press October 5, 2020
Malcom Taylor / Getty Images Actress Sei Ashina Found Dead at Age 36 Japanese actress Sei Ashina was born in Fukushima Prefecture on Nov. 22, 1983. Her birth name was Igarashi Aya. By Amanda Thomason September 16, 2020
Jean Luc Rivoire via AP Divers May Have Found Sunken US Submarine at Center of Harrowing WWII Saga Four divers say they have discovered the wreck of a US submarine lost near Thailand in 1943. By The Associated Press September 15, 2020
©SkyDrive/CARTIVATOR 2020 via AP 'Flying Car' Gets off Ground in Successful Manned Test Flight The Japanese company SkyDrive conducted a successful manned test flight of a ’flying car.’ By The Associated Press August 28, 2020