The White House has stressed Obama will not apologize for America’s use of the bombs when he visits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday.

Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month in the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb.

A flurry of aftershocks hit southwestern Japan on Saturday as rescuers scrambled to reach trapped survivors of two big quakes that killed at least 35 people.

A U.S. military helicopter crash landed off the Japanese island of Okinawa on Wednesday, leaving seven people injured.

Twenty passengers were taken to hospital Tuesday after an Asiana jet skidded off the runway and spun around while landing at Japan’s Hiroshima Airport.

Japanese officials were investigating death threats made against U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and another American diplomat in the country.

The quake struck off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, where authorities have issued a tsunami warning and expected 3-feet-high waves.

Japanese officials said Saturday they were investigating a new online message purporting to be from the extremist group ISIS.

More than 1 million people had fled to shelters by the time Hagupit made landfall Saturday night.