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YURI KAGEYAMA

Financial data is displayed on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, March 2, 2026. (AP/Seth Wenig)
March 3, 2026, 4:48 pm
Growing Iranian drone strikes drive slump in global shares, spike in crude prices
Average price for a gallon of gasoline in the US jumps 11 cents overnight, while stocks of airlines continue to slide and Amazon sees decline after damage to sites in UAE, Bahrain
By YURI KAGEYAMA and Michelle Chapman
Houses fallen by an earthquake are seen in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, January 2, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)
January 2, 2024, 8:49 am
Earthquakes leave at least 48 dead, destroy buildings along Japan’s western coast
Major tremors still to come, says meteorological agency, after magnitude 7.6 quake rocked Ishikawa; Fukushima-type disaster averted despite initial warning of tsunami
By Hiro Komae and YURI KAGEYAMA
This image from a video shows a monkey loitering around a home in Yamaguchi, Japan, July 23, 2022 (Anonymous via AP)
July 27, 2022, 2:30 pm
Japanese city alarmed by biting, clawing, attacking monkeys trying to snatch babies
Japanese macaque attacks — on 58 people in 3 weeks — are getting so bad Yamaguchi city hall hired a special unit to hunt them with tranquilizer guns; no serious injuries so far
By YURI KAGEYAMA
An evacuated family rests at a shelter set up in a sports arena in Soma, Fukushima prefecture on February 14, 2021, after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's east coast late on February 13. (STR / JIJI PRESS / AFP) / Japan OUT
February 14, 2021, 5:43 am
Powerful earthquake strikes Japan, lightly injuring over 100 people
7.3-magnitude temblor causes landslide, blackouts in quake-prone Fukushima and Miyagi
By YURI KAGEYAMA
In this April 25, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn leaves Tokyo's Detention Center for bail in Tokyo, Japan. (Kyodo News via AP, File)
January 2, 2020, 3:47 pm
Lebanon receives Interpol notice for Nissan ex-chair after Japan escape
Carlos Ghosn, wanted for financial offenses, reportedly fled in a private jet to Turkey, then continued to his native Lebanon where he entered legally
By YURI KAGEYAMA and Bassam Mroue
A woman walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Friday, June 14, 2019. Asian shares were mixed Friday as investors weighed a variety of factors, including suspected attacks on two oil tankers in the strategic Strait of Hormuz and lingering worries about trade conflict between the US and China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
June 14, 2019, 4:50 pm
Concerns over Persian Gulf escalation weigh on markets
Shares mostly fall Friday as investors fret over mounting crisis in the Middle East and lingering worries about trade conflict between the US and China
By YURI KAGEYAMA
Residents are evacuated to a safer place from floodwaters caused by heavy rains in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture, southwestern Japan, Saturday, July 7, 2018. Torrents of rainfall and flooding continued to batter southwestern Japan. (Koki Sengoku/Kyodo News via AP)
July 7, 2018, 6:08 pm
38 dead, nearly 50 reported missing as heavy rain hits Japan
People flee to rooftops and balconies, waving furiously at hovering rescue helicopters
By YURI KAGEYAMA
A computer running a Windows Server is seen connected into a network server in an office building in Washington, DC on May 13, 2017. (AFP/Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS)
May 15, 2017, 7:51 am
Cyber chaos may grow as workweek begins
Malicious variations of ransomware could wreak even greater havoc than weekend assault that affected 200,000 victims in 150 countries
By YURI KAGEYAMA and LOUISE WATT
People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2016. (AFP/JUNG YEON-JE)
January 6, 2016, 5:18 pm
H-bomb: Much more powerful than Hiroshima bomb
If true, North Korea’s claim to have developed a hydrogen nuclear weapon would mark signficant proliferation milestone
By YURI KAGEYAMA
In this Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 file photo, a protester holding a photo of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, who was taken hostage by the Islamic State group, appeals to the government to save Goto during a rally in front of the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
February 1, 2015, 8:18 am
Japan mourns slain hostage as caring, courageous reporter
After Islamic State beheading, Kenji Goto remembered for devotion to world’s refugee camps and orphanages
By YURI KAGEYAMA
This file image taken from an online video released by the Islamic State group's al-Furqan media arm on January 20, 2015, purports to show the group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages that the militants identify as Kenji Goto (left), and Haruna Yukawa (right), unless a $200-million ransom is paid within 72 hours. (photo credit: AP/File)
January 25, 2015, 10:21 pm
Japan stunned by video claiming death of 1 of 2 IS hostages
US confirms murder as PM demands release of captive journalist; protesters bemoan Tokyo’s interventionism
By YURI KAGEYAMA
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