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Three homemade rockets were fired at the U.S. and Japanese embassies Wednesday, and a car bomb went off outside a building housing Canada's mission, but no one was injured, Jakarta's military commander said. Maj. Gen. Sugito said none of the rockets exploded. The bomb destroyed the car in which it was planted and damaged five other vehicles. Intelligence sources said privately that the attacks appeared to be the work of a small extremist group with possible support from Libyans.

  The old women, this time with hundreds of demonstrators shouting their support outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, on Wednesday marked the 1,000th successive weekly protest against Tokyo for a 7-decade-old war crime. The women's demands remained unchanged: Punish surviving members of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for taking an estimated 200,000 young Korean women as sex slaves during World War II and pay governmental reparations. Those who fell victim to the Japanese military as young women, who during the war were called "comfort women," are still seeking closure.

Dozens of Chinese demonstrators rallied outside the Japanese Embassy then marched through rain-slicked streets to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, belting out the national anthem and hollering nationalistic slogans against "foreigners" and the Japanese to protest the detention of a Chinese fishing crew. A demonstration of any kind is rare in this tightly controlled nation, and Saturday's protest was a deliberately understated affair. The marchers were carefully monitored by rings of police, who moved through the protest with an almost methodical choreography.

With the seizure of a Chinese fishing boat by Japan last month still roiling relations, thousands of protesters turned out over the weekend in at least three provincial Chinese cities chanting anti-Japanese slogans and, in one case, smashing the windows of a Japanese store. Demonstrators apparently mobilized because of reports that there would be a Japanese protest near the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. The largest demonstration was in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.

The Japanese Embassy in Kuwait gave refuge to 16 American diplomats and their families shortly after Iraq's invasion, then helped them escape from the emirate, Foreign Ministry officials said Thursday. The Foreign Ministry had kept silent about the matter because it feared any publicity might lead to Iraqi reprisals against Japanese citizens held in Kuwait, the officials said.

A helicopter crashed in the port city of Tianjin on Friday, killing all 11 people aboard, including a Japanese pilot, the Japanese Embassy said. The helicopter, which belonged to the Japanese company Asahi Koyo, crashed near Tianjin airport, embassy officials said. According to the state-run Civil Aviation Administration of China, the helicopter had two pilots. One was Japanese, but he was not identified, the officials said; the other 10 people aboard were Chinese. The officials said the nature of the flight was not known although they said it was possible that Asahi Koyo is a company involved in marine resource development.

A U.S. hydrogen bomb was crushed by sea pressure when it fell into the Pacific Ocean off Japan 24 years ago, and its nuclear material has dissolved harmlessly on the sea floor, the United States has told Japan. The material poses no environmental hazard, the U.S. Defense Department said in a report given to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday. A copy was given to the news services today after Cabinet members said Japan would check for possible environmental dangers. The Foreign Ministry later formed a team to evaluate the U.S. report and decide whether more studies are needed.

The United States has told Japan that a hydrogen bomb lost off a U.S. warship near Okinawa 24 years ago has leaked radioactive material but poses no threat to the environment, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno told a parliamentary committee that Japan accepts the U.S. evaluation but that an investigation is necessary to allay public fears. The four-paragraph Defense Department report, sent to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday, grew out of disclosures last week that an H-bomb settled to the Pacific Ocean floor about 70 miles from Okinawa after an A-4E Skyhawk carrying the weapon rolled off the deck of the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga in December, 1965.

Japan joined the club of wary world powers this week after the capture by Peruvian guerrillas of hundreds of guests at a birthday party in Lima for Emperor Akihito demonstrated the frightening global ramifications of foreign policy lapses. "Like America, Japan has made enemies without even noticing, and now it must protect itself," said professor Koichi Oizumi, an international relations expert at Japan University. "We must take an 'eye-for-eye, tooth-for-tooth' attitude toward terrorism.

Bowing to mounting outrage in the United States and criticism in Japan over a controversial racial remark, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone admitted today that it was offensive and said, "I would like to express my heartfelt apology." "I realize that my recent remarks have offended many Americans," Nakasone said in a three-paragraph statement, issued early today in Tokyo by the Foreign Ministry.

Demonstrators rallied outside the Japanese Embassy and marched through rain-slicked streets to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, belting out the Chinese national anthem and hollering nationalistic slogans to protest the detention of a Chinese fishing crew by Japan. A demonstration of any kind is relatively rare in China, and Saturday's protest by dozens of demonstrators was a deliberately understated affair. The marchers were carefully monitored by rings of police. Events that unfolded on the edges of the main event were more dramatic.

Dozens of Chinese demonstrators rallied outside the Japanese Embassy then marched through rain-slicked streets to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, belting out the national anthem and hollering nationalistic slogans against "foreigners" and the Japanese to protest the detention of a Chinese fishing crew. A demonstration of any kind is rare in this tightly controlled nation, and Saturday's protest was a deliberately understated affair. The marchers were carefully monitored by rings of police, who moved through the protest with an almost methodical choreography.

Japan joined the club of wary world powers this week after the capture by Peruvian guerrillas of hundreds of guests at a birthday party in Lima for Emperor Akihito demonstrated the frightening global ramifications of foreign policy lapses. "Like America, Japan has made enemies without even noticing, and now it must protect itself," said professor Koichi Oizumi, an international relations expert at Japan University. "We must take an 'eye-for-eye, tooth-for-tooth' attitude toward terrorism.

The Japanese Embassy in Kuwait gave refuge to 16 American diplomats and their families shortly after Iraq's invasion, then helped them escape from the emirate, Foreign Ministry officials said Thursday. The Foreign Ministry had kept silent about the matter because it feared any publicity might lead to Iraqi reprisals against Japanese citizens held in Kuwait, the officials said.

This is the house that Hitler built for Emperor Hirohito. Outward signs of the building's identity are subtle, but unmistakable. Its austere granite facade and bold square columns are typical of the Nazi neoclassical architecture that flourished during Germany's darkest days. And on its roof line a curious detail catches the eye: the chrysanthemum crest, symbol of Japan's imperial family.

When Luis Orlando Arias was a young delivery boy in his native El Salvador, one of his favorite stops was the Japanese Embassy. He would gaze wistfully at posters of Japanese temples and graceful women in kimonos strolling under the shade of cherry blossom trees. He yearned to learn more about the culture he had grown to admire, but the dream seemed as distant as Japan itself. Then he came to Los Angeles. Within a few years, Arias developed a taste for sushi and made new friends at Little Tokyo piano bars and arcades.

With the seizure of a Chinese fishing boat by Japan last month still roiling relations, thousands of protesters turned out over the weekend in at least three provincial Chinese cities chanting anti-Japanese slogans and, in one case, smashing the windows of a Japanese store. Demonstrators apparently mobilized because of reports that there would be a Japanese protest near the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. The largest demonstration was in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.

When Luis Orlando Arias was a young delivery boy in his native El Salvador, one of his favorite stops was the Japanese Embassy. He would gaze wistfully at posters of Japanese temples and graceful women in kimonos strolling under the shade of cherry blossom trees. He yearned to learn more about the culture he had grown to admire, but the dream seemed as distant as Japan itself. Then he came to Los Angeles. Within a few years, Arias developed a taste for sushi and made new friends at Little Tokyo piano bars and arcades.

The United States has told Japan that a hydrogen bomb lost off a U.S. warship near Okinawa 24 years ago has leaked radioactive material but poses no threat to the environment, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno told a parliamentary committee that Japan accepts the U.S. evaluation but that an investigation is necessary to allay public fears. The four-paragraph Defense Department report, sent to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday, grew out of disclosures last week that an H-bomb settled to the Pacific Ocean floor about 70 miles from Okinawa after an A-4E Skyhawk carrying the weapon rolled off the deck of the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga in December, 1965.