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Justin Bieber shares behind-the-scenes of Japan trip with wife Hailey

The pop star and his model wife celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary this week

TOKYO - Justin and Hailey Bieber are going "All Around the World" - and they're taking fans with them.

The pop superstar, 29, shared a carousel of photos on Instagram on Saturday from the couple's trip to Japan, giving his followers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the Biebers have been spending their vacation - which included stunning greenery and cool outfits.

The series of images showed Justin relaxing on a couch — complete with giant colorful cushions — while playing video games, posing with his wife in matching leather looks, smiling while squatting on a mossy rock in what appeared to be a Japanese garden and in a cute couple's pose on a bench with Hailey.

In one picture, the Biebers even spent some time together on a swing set, with Justin was captured mid-swing with a giant grin.

"Thank you ???????? love you," he captioned the images, including the Japanese flag. ...continue reading

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[Updated 5:53 p.m.] A powerful earthquake struck off Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines at 8:38 a.m. (Japan time) on June 8th, generating tsunami waves across parts of the Pacific, causing building collapses and casualties near the epicenter, and prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue tsunami advisories along a wide stretch of Japan's Pacific coastline, which remained in effect as of 5:53 p.m.

A clinic director and a former Peruvian staff member have been referred to prosecutors after the man allegedly performed medical procedures without a license, including an external cephalic version—a procedure used to manually turn a baby into the correct position before birth—at an obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Fukuoka City, raising concerns about patient safety and oversight in maternity care.

A large bear was captured on security camera footage running through a shopping arcade in central Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in the early hours of June 7th, as authorities stepped up warnings following a series of bear sightings across the city.

The family of James "Weston" Higginbotham, a 20-year-old Auburn University student who disappeared during a family vacation in Japan, announced on June 7th that he has been found dead after a volunteer search-and-rescue group located his body in a mountainous area outside Kyoto, bringing a week-long multinational search to a tragic end.

Japan's Meteorological Agency announced on June 7th that the rainy season is believed to have begun in the Tokai and Kanto-Koshin regions, marking the seasonal shift to wetter weather across a broad area of the country.

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