Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan’s hits record, has died

The government said it has lowered its travel alerts for some areas in Israel, Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.

The continental games will officially open on September 19, but several team competitions will get under way earlier.

Tokyo claims the map uses the same color for the islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories, as it does for Russian territory.

Harimoto, whose record 3,085 career hits still stands, was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990.

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