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Audio recordings of post-WWII jungle-hold-out soldier tell of harsh life
Audio recordings of Shoichi Yokoi — the former Japanese soldier who held out for 27 years in the jun...
August 14, 2022
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Sazae-san fires strike for crime prevention
Sazae-san, a cheerful popular TV cartoon character from a program of the same name, threw out the ce...
August 14, 2022
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Awa Odori festival back after 3 years
TOKUSHIMA — The Awa Odori dance festival is stepping back into areas of Tokushima City at outdoor ve...
August 14, 2022
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Study abroad project allows prefectures to select students
The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry is aiming to dispatch 5,000 high sch...
August 14, 2022
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Vacant houses become game facilities, photo studios in new business ventures
More and more firms are expanding into new businesses by renovating vacant houses to become event fa...
August 14, 2022
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NPO planned organ transplants in Sri Lanka
In a case of suspected organ trafficking in living donor kidney transplants, a nonprofit organizatio...
August 14, 2022
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Typhoon No. 8 hits Shizuoka Prefecture; heavy rain warning in other areas
Typhoon No. 8 brought heavy rains to the Tokai region Saturday, making landfall over the Izu Peninsu...
August 13, 2022
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Kanazawa temple keeps 300 photos of soldiers entrusted by mothers praying for safety
Seventy-seven years after the war ended, a Kanazawa temple keeps about 300 portraits of soldiers tha...
August 13, 2022
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Over 60％ of beaches in Japan’s disaster-hit prefectures have reopened
Almost two-thirds of beaches in three prefectures hit hard by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake h...
August 13, 2022
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Kitakyushu market hit by fire again; no injuries reported
KITAKYUSHU — A fire broke out near Tanga Market in Kitakyushu on Wednesday night, burning an area o...
August 12, 2022
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1985 JAL crash victims remembered
UENO, Gunma — Friday marked the 37th anniversary of the Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash at Mt. Osutak...
August 12, 2022
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Steamy performance sends Japan Aufguss champion to world competition in Europe
TOTTORI — Netsuko Goto is the hottest star in Japanese Aufguss circles right now, and next month she...
August 12, 2022
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‘Takoyaki guitar’ hits the right notes in Osaka
A distinctive new electric guitar might be music to the ears of fans of the octopus-stuffed fried ba...
August 12, 2022
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Series of quakes hits northern Hokkaido
The northern part of Hokkaido was hit by a series of earthquakes on Thursday, including one measurin...
August 11, 2022
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Former Unification Church denies involvement in ‘spiritual sales’
The president of the Japan branch of the religious group widely known as the Unification Church said...
August 11, 2022
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