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Common Test for University Admissions Underway Across Japan
Students taking the Common Test for University Admissions wait for an examination to begin in a h...
January 18, 2025
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Balloon Trips for ‘Space Sightseeing’ to Be Launched in April at Earliest; Space Tourists Can Fly to Stratosphere
Iwaya Inc., a Hokkaido-based startup, announced that it will begin offering balloon trips to the ...
January 18, 2025
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Cabinet Office Survey Finds 200 Local Govts Have No Stockpile of Portable Beds for Use in Case of Emergency
More than 200 local governments have no stockpile of cardboard and other portable beds to use in ...
January 18, 2025
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Phone Carriers Offering Services in Areas Away From Retail Shops; Labor Shortages, Depopulation Squeezing Firms
As the number of areas without mobile phone retail shops has been increasing due to labor shortag...
January 18, 2025
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Japan To Posthumously Honor Yomiuri’s Tsuneo Watanabe; Govt Announces Third Grade, Senior of the Court Rank
Tsuneo Watanabe, representative director and editor-in-chief of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, who...
January 17, 2025
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30 Yrs Since Kobe Quake, Ties Between Affected Residents Starting to Fade; Those Affected by Great East Japan Quake Look to Set Up Countermeasures
While Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that killed 6,434 p...
January 17, 2025
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Giant Snow Monsters Appear in Hakkoda Mountains; Tourists Flock to Area to See Snow-Covered Trees
AOMORI — The Hakkoda Mountains in Aomori Prefecture are now guarded by soft rime, better known as...
January 17, 2025
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Great Hanshin Earthquake’s victims remembered 30 years on; Emperor, Empress Attend Memorial Ceremony in Kobe (Update 1)
KOBE — Memorials dedicated to the 6,434 victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake took place in Hyo...
January 17, 2025
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Survey: 95％ of Elementary, Junior High Principals Favor Mix of Paper, Digital Textbooks
Elementary and junior high school principals overwhelmingly want to use digital textbooks in comb...
January 17, 2025
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Odakyu Line Service Resumes Between Shinjuku and Kyodo Stations; Romancecar Operations Remain Suspended
The Odakyu Line resumed service between Shinjuku and Kyodo stations at around 12:30 on Thursday a...
January 16, 2025
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Chance of M8-M9 Nankai Trough Earthquake Hitting Japan in 30 Yrs Raised to ‘Around 80％’; Head of Earthquake Panel Urges Public to ‘Stay Alert’
The possibility of a magnitude 8 to 9 earthquake occurring in the Nankai Trough in the next 30 ye...
January 16, 2025
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Odakyu Line: Suspending Services between Shinjuku and Kyodo Stations, Romancecar Express Train Operations
The Odakyu Line is currently suspending services between Shinjuku and Kyodo stations and the oper...
January 16, 2025
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Foreign Visitors to Japan Spend Over 8 Trillion Yen for 1st Time
Spending by foreign visitors to Japan exceeded 8 trillion yen for the first time in 2024, reachin...
January 15, 2025
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Red-Crowned Cranes Perform Dance of Love at Hokkaido Sanctuary
A pair of Tancho, or red-crowned cranes, perform a dance of love in the village of Tsurui in Hokk...
January 15, 2025
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Hakone Tozan Railway Services Resume Between Odawara, Hakone Yumoto Stations
Services on the Hakone Tozan Railway between Odawara and Hakone Yumoto stations resumed at about ...
January 15, 2025
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