Wind and water enthusiasts welcomed the return of competitive sailing to Guam’s waters, held through the weekend at the Marianas Yacht Club in Sasa Bay, Piti. Ten youth competitors — six skilled sailors from Japan as well as up-and-comers from Guam, raced in the 44th Guam-Japan Goodwill...
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Once upon a time civilized societies tortured accused criminals into confessing. “Barbaric,” we say now. Capital punishment, until recently and almost everywhere, was the sentence for a vast array of crimes, from murder down to petty theft; sometimes for no offense at all, at the whim of...
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi has met his Chinese counterpart in Beijing and urged the government there to promptly release a jailed Japanese national. Hayashi’s meeting on Sunday with Qin Gang was the first visit to Beijing for a Japanese foreign minister in more than three...
Plymouth Argyle superfan Tatsuki Usi has travelled all the way from Japan to watch the Green Army take on Bolton Wanderers in an all League One clash this afternoon. Tatsuki, who has followed the Pilgrims for almost two decades, has been flooded with messages from other fans and has...
