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Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 18, 2022
Japan and U.S. set up military intelligence team at Yokota Air Base
The team will analyze information collected by the nations' defense equipment, including U.S. unmanned aircraft recently deployed near the East China Sea.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Nov 7, 2022
Japan Times 1997: 15 Japanese wives arrive on visit from North Korea
Twenty-five years ago, the Japanese media became fascinated by the women who left Japan for North Korea with their husbands 40 years prior.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 6, 2022
Survivors found after plane plunges into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
A plane carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania early on Sunday due to bad weather shortly before it was due to land.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 23, 2022
Reira Iwabuchi, Takeru Otsuka win big air World Cup season opener
Iwabuchi stomped the three highest-scoring runs of the evening in the women's competition in Chur, while an equally dominant Otsuka claimed the men's crown.
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JAPAN / History
Oct 4, 2022
Tokyo to digitize material related to March 1945 air raids
The government will create a digital database of videotaped testimonies from those who experienced the airstrikes and personal belongings of victims that have not been publicly shown.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2022
Japan's Air Do and Solaseed Air merge as travel demand hit by pandemic
Air Do, headquartered in Sapporo, and Solaseed Air, based in Miyazaki, will retain their names and current routes under a new holding company, RegionalPlus Wings.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2022
U.S. Air Force OKs Osprey flights after grounding them for safety
The U.S. Air Force indicated that the decision came without getting to the bottom of the safety issue for its CV-22s, a move that will affect the tilt-rotor aircraft stationed in Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 23, 2022
South Korea developing new stealthy drones to support combat aircraft
The program involving flag carrier Korean Air is part of Seoul's efforts to expand its military technological advantage over North Korea.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2022
Kin remember victims of 1985 JAL jet crash on 37th anniversary
Out of 524 passengers and crew, only four people survived the crash, making it the world's deadliest single-aircraft accident.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2022
Man acquitted in deadly 1985 Air India bombing case killed in Canada
Ripudaman Singh Malik was reportedly shot outside his clothing business in the area of Vancouver.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 14, 2022
In hottest city on Earth, mothers bear brunt of climate change
Pregnant women exposed to heat for prolonged periods of time have a higher risk of suffering complications, an analysis of 70 studies conducted since the mid-1990s on the issue found.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2022
Indian workers suffer as heat waves turn factories into 'furnaces'
Many Indian cities recorded their highest average temperatures this summer, breaching century-old records, with multiple heat wave alerts announced by local administrations.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 18, 2022
Investigators probe whether China Eastern crash was intentional, sources say
Authorities have said the pilots did not respond to repeated calls from air traffic controllers and nearby planes during the rapid descent.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2022
Black boxes may unlock secrets of jet’s mystery plunge in China
The recovery of the second black box gives investigators the best chance of finding out what caused the crash, but much depends on the condition of the black boxes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2022
Air crash disaster risks an even wider rift for Boeing and China
With relations between Washington and Beijing at their lowest ebb in years, the probe into the crash has turned the two archrivals into reluctant bedfellows.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 24, 2022
China Eastern jet neared speed of sound before crash, damaging black box
The exterior of the cockpit voice recorder was 'severely damaged” and analysis will take time because there is also some damage to its internal memory unit, an official said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 24, 2022
How black boxes of crashed Chinese jet will be handled
The only device recovered so far is the plane's cockpit voice recorder, based on an early assessment, with the flight data recorder still yet to be found.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 23, 2022
China searches for victims from plane crash with cause still unclear
About 600 soldiers, firefighters and police have been dispatched to the crash site, a patch of about 1 square kilometer in a location hemmed in by mountains on three sides.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Mar 23, 2022
China Eastern crash could set back Boeing's China recovery and return of MAX
A 737 MAX built for a China Eastern subsidiary took off from Seattle bound for Boeing's completion plant in Zhoushan last week, in a sign the model's return to service in China was close.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022
Fatal nosedive by China Eastern jet baffles crash specialists
Few past incidents fit the extreme profile of the jet's descent Monday, in which it pointed steeply toward the ground before impact.

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