Japan Beats Hawaii to Win Little League World Series

Tokyo beat Waipahu, Hawaii, 4-1, in the Little League World Series final to become the first international champion since 2004.

New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign

A new type of ultranationalist group in Japan is unafraid to win attention by holding unruly demonstrations.

US baby babble hits Japan taxis

Taxi and lorry drivers in Japan are being affected by unusual disruption from US military bases - baby babble that jams their radios.

Japanese PM apologizes on anniversary of WWII end

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments' tradition and instead apologizing Sunday for the suffering World War II caused.

Far right pays tribute to Japan's 'war heroes'

British and Japanese ultranationalists will shrug off protests from war veterans in an unlikely show of solidarity at a controversial Tokyo memorial today, on the 65th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the Second World War.

Enola Gay navigator has 'no regrets'

As the Japanese city of Hiroshima marks the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack, a member of the US crew that dropped the weapon talks to the BBC's Kristin Wilson about his memories of that day.

Hiroshima and the Art of Outrage

Sixty-five years after the atom bomb, are the United States and Japan meeting their moral responsibilities?

Editors note: essay by Nobel laureate, Kenzaburo Oe.