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Shinkansen Services Suspended After Man ‘Searches for Phone’ on Tracks; Disruption Affects About 14,000 Passengers
Services on the Tokaido Shinkansen were temporarily suspended Saturday night after a man who said...
April 14, 2024
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Uniforms for Osaka Expo Venue Staff Unveiled
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Uniforms for people who will work at the venue of the 2025 World Exposition in...
April 14, 2024
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Taiwan’s Public-Private Cooperation Allowed City to Act Quickly After Quake; Taiwan Modeled Disaster Response After Japan’s System
HUALIEN, Taiwan — After a powerful earthquake occurred off Hualien, eastern Taiwan, on April 3, p...
April 14, 2024
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Osaka Expo Fails to Excite with Year Left before Opening; Ticket Sales Limping Along
With one year to go before the opening of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, there is little excitement ...
April 13, 2024
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1 Year to Go Before 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo’s Opening; Shinkansen Adorned with Expo Logo, Mascot Character
With a year to go before the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, four JR companies, including Central Japan R...
April 13, 2024
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‘Comfort Women of the Empire’ Author Park Yu-ha Found Not Guilty of Defamation in Retrial Examining Academic Freedom of Speech
SEOUL — The Seoul High Court on Friday acquitted Park Yu-ha, professor emeritus at Sejong Univers...
April 13, 2024
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Seat Reservations on Shinkansen, Other JR Lines up 16% for Golden Week; Pandemic Drop in Ridership Disappears
Seat reservations on Shinkansen and other JR lines during the Golden Week holiday were up 16% as ...
April 12, 2024
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Man Found Dead Floating in Moat of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace; Man Thought to Be Tokyo Resident in His 70
A man was found floating in the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward by a cleaning...
April 12, 2024
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Japan Ministry Sounds Alarm Over Hungry Bears in Spring; May Attack People After Coming Out of Hibernation
The Environment Ministry is warning that hungry bears may return to human communities in the spri...
April 11, 2024
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Sake That Goes with Baby Star Ramen Goes on Sale
A sake brewery in Mie Prefecture has created sake that goes with Baby Star Ramen in collaboration...
April 11, 2024
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Symposium on Combatting AI Child Porn Online Held in Tokyo; International NPOs Asking for Japanese Cooperation
A symposium to discuss how to combat the spread of AI-generated sexual images of children on the ...
April 11, 2024
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Female Inmates Admitted to Junior High Prison School for First Time
MATSUMOTO, Nagano — Five female prisoners on Tuesday enrolled in a junior high school located wit...
April 10, 2024
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Japanese Astronaut Wakata Joins U.S. Space Company
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has been appointed as Axiom Space Inc.’s chie...
April 10, 2024
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Japan’s Public, Private Sectors Offer Aid to Quake-hit Taiwan; Bilateral Relationship a ‘Cycle of Goodwill,’ Says Tsai
TAIPEI — Japan’s private and public sectors have geared up to support Taiwan after the deadly ear...
April 10, 2024
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3 of 5 Deceased After Taking Benikoji Supplement Had Pre-Existing Diseases, Health Ministry, Japanese Society of Nephrology Say
Three of the five people who died after taking Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s supplement containing b...
April 9, 2024
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