The 353rd Special Operations Squadron Ospreys, which departed Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo, landed at Amami Airport in Kagoshima prefecture at about 3 p.m., a Kyushu Defense Bureau spokesman said on Tuesday.

KCNA: "Japan is bound to be ridiculed by the international community and driven out of history if it persists in escalating confrontation with the DPRK under the pretext of the already resolved 'abduction issue', failing to acclimatize itself to the new situation."

KCNA: "However, their lone voice being at odds with the current situation failed to get a positive response. Japan is trumpeting about 'pressure', unaware of how the situation changes and what others think of, only to be derided by the international community."

KCNA: "'Only Japan has been left out of mosquito net.' Such public criticism is getting louder in Japan and 'passing Japan' has become an idiomatic expression worldwide. In this context, Japan should ponder over its behavior."

KCNA: "Japan looks very anxious after being nudged out of the trend of the rapidly developing situation on the Korean peninsula. Prime Minister Abeand other politicians of Japan are bustling about, asking other countries to 'cooperate in putting maximum pressure' on the DPRK."

Japan's finance minister will take a year's pay cut over a land scandal

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KCNA: "Japan's U-turn makes one think what miserable position Japan is in Why does Japan dislike and oppose the atmosphere of reconciliation and peace in the peninsula?"

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford hosted Gen. Jeong Kyeongdoo and Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano for a meeting May 29 at US Pacific Command HQ in Hawaii. The senior-most US, South Korean, and Japanese military officers last met in Oct 2017

Naval ships, aircraft and personnel from India, Japan and US will participate in Malabar2018 mid-summer off the coast of Guam

Two bodies found on a mountain in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, have been identified as those of a father and his 6-year-old son who went missing in early May, police said

Yesterday, US Secretary of Defence Mattis and Chairman of @TheJointStaff General Dunford met with Japanese Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera at @JointBasePHH, Hawaii

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According to just-issued @WhiteHouse readout, @POTUS and @AbeShinzo confirmed "they would meet again to continue close coordination in advance of the expected meeting between the United States and North Korea."

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 59km E of Ishinomaki, Japan

Japan's Abe oversees puppy handover to Russian Olympic champion

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Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 22km ENE of Iiyama, Japan

KCNA: "They are keen on making Japan a country which can conduct a war so as to realize the old dream of the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere'. Such moves will bring Japan nothing good, and the militarist war chariot will be led only to the abyss of ruin."

Japanese government to keep close eye on U.S.-North Korea situation after Donald Trump cancels planned summit with Kim Jong Un

Japan PM Shinzo Abe backs US President Donald Trump's decision to pull out from the planned summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un

"We had dialogue just below the president's level," replies official to question of whether @POTUS called @moonriver365 and @AbeShinzo.

Japan and South Korea ready to respond with US to any "reckless acts by North Korea," adds @POTUS

"I have to hold frank and heart-to-heart talks with President Putin" to advance negotiations over a postwar peace treaty, Japanese Prime Minister ShinzoAbe said before his departure for Russia