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President Trump’s trip to Japan started with a bang – a magnitude-5.1 earthquake centered near the golf course where he and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are set to play golf Sunday. The temblor, which rattled Tokyo just hours before Trump’s arrival, briefly halted nearby bullet trains, but did not derail the leaders’ plans for their first meeting of the four-day visit, which will take place at the Mobara Country Club in Chiba. Later, the leaders will attend a championship sumo wrestling match, where Trump will award the “President’s Cup” to the winner. The trophy is 5 feet tall and weighs...

Visibly straining as he holds it aloft, a Japanese fisherman grimaces as he proudly displays a terrifyingly large fish caught in the waters off Japan. With a gaping mouth large enough to swallow a small child, this creature - believed to be a wolffish - would not look out of place in a science fiction film. The massive catch was reeled in by Hirasaka Hiroshi, a fisherman who has made a career of landing and then eating unusual fish. Normally growing to about 1.2m in length, the wolffish Hirasaka caught measured close to two metres

From correspondents in Tokyo POLICE and firefighters cordoned off an area near the Japan Defence Agency headquarters after residents reported hearing two loud explosions, the Kyodo news agency reported today. Residents in the vicinity of the Defence Agency's headquarters in Tokyo reported hearing two loud bangs in what police suspect might have been a projectile attack aimed at the agency's premises," the report said. Tokyo metropolitan police officials and firefighters rushed to the scene after reports of the noise around 11.00pm yesterday and cordoned off an area around a temple and cemetery near the agency's headquarters, Kyodo reported. Police found...