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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada 3

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the area, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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ASDF chief justifies Japan's wartime aggression in China

TOKYO, Japan - Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Toshio Tamogami (file photo) justifies Japan's military aggression in China before and during World War II in an essay released on Oct. 31, saying it is ''false'' to accuse Japan of having been an aggressor nation. The essay was made public by hotel and condominium developer Apa Group, which announced Tamogami had won the grand prix prize in a competition organized by it.

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2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

TOKYO, Japan - Fumiko Motoya (L), president of Apa Hotel, and her husband Toshio Motoya, who heads the Apa Group, hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Kyoto city government banned two Apa hotels in Kyoto from accepting customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes.

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The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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The APA Group was approached by the government and informed of its intention to accept asymptomatic and mildly ill people with the new coronavirus at its hotels. April 8, 2020, Kanda Ogawamachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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ASDF chief justifies Japan's wartime aggression in China

TOKYO, Japan - Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Toshio Tamogami (file photo) justifies Japan's military aggression in China before and during World War II in an essay released on Oct. 31, saying it is ''false'' to accuse Japan of having been an aggressor nation. The essay was made public by hotel and condominium developer Apa Group, which announced Tamogami had won the grand prix prize in a competition organized by it. (Kyodo)

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APA Group holds grand opening of 1st hotel abroad in U.S.

Photo taken June 20, 2016, in Iselin, New Jersey, shows a grand opening of APA Hotel Woodbridge, the first property in Japanese hotel chain APA Group's planned overseas expansion. Open to guests since last November, the hotel is undergoing a series of renovations through the spring of 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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APA Group opens 1st hotel abroad in New Jersey

Executives of Japanese real estate and hotel concern APA Group, led by its president Toshio Motoya (C), pose for a photo at a press conference in New York on Nov. 12, 2015. The group said it will open an APA hotel in New Jersey the following day, its first outside Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

TOKYO, Japan - Fumiko Motoya (L), president of Apa Hotel, and her husband Toshio Motoya, who heads the Apa Group, hold a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 25 after the Kyoto city government banned two Apa hotels in Kyoto from accepting customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes. (Kyodo)

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2017, in Tokyo shows a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre written in Japanese and English under a pen name by Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place the book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken in December 2008 shows Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group, who wrote a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place his book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

File photo taken in November 2015 shows Toshio Motoya (R), chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator APA Group, and his wife Fumiko, the head of the group's hotel business. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, written by the husband, in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tourism industry braces for fallout from Nanjing denial book

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2017, in a room of a hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku district operated by APA Group shows a book denying the 1937 Nanjing Massacre written in Japanese and English under a pen name by Toshio Motoya, chief executive of the major Japanese hotel chain operator. A furor over the hotel chain's decision to place the book in its rooms is rattling Japan's tourism industry as the money-making Lunar New Year holidays get under way. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo