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Japan govt to ask Unification Church more questions
The government is to ask the Unification Church additional questions — exercising its “right to ques...
December 10, 2022
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Japan tour boat likely flooded through hatch
The Kazu I sightseeing boat, which sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in April with 26 peo...
December 9, 2022
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Family members of Unification Church followers welcome upcoming legislation on donations
Families of Unification Church followers held a press conference in Tokyo on Thursday to express the...
December 9, 2022
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Unification Church requested ‘application forms’ for adoption between followers
The Unification Church requested that “adoption application forms” be submitted for adoptions arrang...
December 9, 2022
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1,000 extra welfare officers proposed to help tackle child abuse
The government aims to increase the number of child welfare officers by the end of fiscal 2024, as p...
December 9, 2022
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Japanese veterans of World War II recount horrors of the battlefield
Veterans of World War II, some of them more than 100 years old, continue to recount their experience...
December 8, 2022
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Average age of Japan’s Pacific War veterans tops 100
The average age of former soldiers who served in the Pacific War and receive a military pension has ...
December 8, 2022
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Winter buds: Women make hanamochi decorations at a workshop in Takayama, Gifu Pref.
Women make hanamochi (flower mochi) decorations at a workshop in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, ahead of...
December 8, 2022
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Ready for Christmas
With their lush green leaves, vividly scarlet-hued poinsettias fill a greenhouse at Yatomi, Aichi Pr...
December 8, 2022
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Translation of book about Pearl Harbor attack released in Japan
A former junior high school teacher in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has translated an English book w...
December 7, 2022
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Japanese botanist’s unfinished illustrated plant guide finally published
Photo courtesy of Kazuoki MakinoTomitaro Makino The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] ...
December 7, 2022
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Pandemic causing delays in pilot training, staff shortages in Japan
udents at the Civil Aviation College in Miyazaki are taking three years to graduate rather than two ...
December 7, 2022
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Traffic accidents rise involving drunk people asleep on Tokyo streets
Thirteen people in Tokyo this year have died after falling asleep on the street while intoxicated an...
December 6, 2022
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Premium yellowtail fetches ¥4 mil.
KANAZAWA – A high-end “Kirameki” yellowtail fish has netted its catchers ¥4 million at a Kanazawa au...
December 6, 2022
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Kyushu Univ. archives slain Japanese doctor’s records
Three years have passed since Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese doctor who worked on humanitarian assistanc...
December 5, 2022
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