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Initial reports of the attack moved on news wires at approximately 2:25 p.m. Eastern time. The first radio coverage (which, at the time, represented the earliest opportunity for ordinary people to learn of the attack) was on the CBS radio network's scheduled news program, World News Today, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.
1995 France bombings: A bomb was thrown at an underground commuter train. The train was derailed and damaged. No one was killed, but 29 people were injured. [8] GIA Algerian Civil War October 20 Suicide car bombing 0 (+1) 29: Rijeka, Croatia: 1995 Rijeka bombing: A car bomb was detonated in front of a police station. The perpetrator driving the ...
September 4 – 1995 Okinawa rape incident: Three U.S. servicemen serving at Camp Hansen on Okinawa kidnap and gang rape a 12-year-old Japanese girl. The incident led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan. October 26 - Mitsubishi Motors releases the Mitsubishi Pajero Junior mini SUV.
Within 24 hours, Congress had reversed its position of neutrality in World War II, declaring war on Japan and starting the chain of events that led to the U.S. forces joining the full war.
1991: Japan provides US$ 4 billion of funding to US efforts in the Gulf War, but does not send troops. 1995: February: The Nye Initiative, a report on the United States security strategy toward East Asia and the Pacific area, is published. September 4: Three US servicemen abduct and rape a 12-year-old girl in Okinawa. [27]
The 9/11 attack was the single deadliest international terrorist incident and the most devastating foreign attack on American soil since the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. [42] It refocused American attention to a long war on terrorism, beginning with an attack on al-Qaeda and its Taliban supporters in Afghanistan.
China's rise on the Global 500, from three companies in 1995 to 135 today, has displaced many Japanese firms. Those Chinese firms are encroaching on Japan’s traditional strengths, too.
From a Japanese perspective, the revised U.S.-Japan Security Treaty signed in January 1960, known as "Anpo" in Japanese, represented significant improvement over the original treaty, committing the United States to defend Japan in an attack, requiring prior consultation with the Japanese government before dispatching US forces based in Japan ...