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This year’s World Expo theme is “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” and features innovative technology from 158 countries in Osaka, Japan. (Wikimedia Commons) World Expo 2025, the latest chapter of an event that traces its roots to the mid-19th century, is underway in Japan with a mission to reconnect the world’s citizens. Born out of the historic world fairs, the international event returns to Japan for the third time.

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A U.S. Navy sailor told a Japanese court on May 7, 2025, that he made an illegal turn near Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Sept. 18, 2024, causing a fatal collision. (Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes) YOKOSUKA, Japan — A U.S. Navy sailor pleaded no contest Wednesday in a Japanese court to causing the death of a motorcyclist in a collision near Yokosuka Naval Base last year. He may face up to 18 months in prison.

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The 3rd Marine Logistics Group is based at Camp Kinser, Okinawa. (U.S. Marine Corps) One of two U.S. Marines who went missing Friday during a mountain hike in northern Japan has died. The pair went missing on Mount Furano in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, said 3rd Marine Logistics Group spokesman Capt. Brett Vannier. Both were found by Saturday and one was declared dead that day, Vannier told Stars and Stripes by phone Monday.

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A B-1B Lancer bomber takes off from Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 22, 2025. (Mattison Cole/U.S. Air Force) A U.S. bomber’s emergency landing that shut down a shared runway and canceled commercial flights in northeastern Japan has drawn sharp rebuke from local officials, who demanded stronger safety measures from the Air Force and Japan’s Ministry of Defense.

2 weeks ago | stripes.com | Hana Kusumoto |Alex Wilson

Two B-1B Lancers taxi before taking off at Misawa Air Base, Japan, on April 22, 2025. (Mattison Cole/U.S. Air Force) Two commercial flights were canceled Tuesday evening after a U.S. Air Force strategic bomber stalled on a shared runway in northeastern Japan, according to local media reports. Trouble with a B-1B Lancer at Misawa Air Base in Aomori prefecture prompted the runway closure from about 6 p.m. to 7:20 p.m., TBS Television reported Wednesday.