A U.S. Marine was arrested in Okinawa on October 4 on suspicion of robbing and murdering a local woman in the city of Naha.

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Japan is launching a spacecraft on a groundbreaking mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of Mars' moons.

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TOKYO — Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world’s first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped moons orbiting Mars. Scientists hope the mission, which ...