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149-year-old among missing people declared legally dead by courts
Missing people far beyond the age of Japan’s oldest confirmed living person are not declared dead un...
May 9, 2022
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High-tech ship joins search for people still missing in Hokkaido boat tragedy
SHARI, Hokkaido — The search for missing people on the sunken Kazu I sightseeing vessel began Sunday...
May 9, 2022
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Tower Slider opens at Tsutenkaku Tower in Osaka
A 60-meter slide that takes riders from the third-floor observatory of Tsutenkaku Tower to its basem...
May 9, 2022
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Musk tweet on Japan doomed by low birthrate provokes anger – but not just at him
TOKYO (Reuters) - An Elon Musk tweet saying Japan would “eventually cease to exist” without a highe...
May 9, 2022
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Homeless in Tokyo’s 23 wards over age 65 on average for 1st time
Central Tokyo’s homeless population has an average age over 65 for the first time since a metropolit...
May 9, 2022
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Returned abductee urges Diet members to make nonpartisan efforts to resolve N. Korea abduction issue
Abducted by North Korea then returned to Japan in 2002, Hitomi Soga has for 20 years been trying to ...
May 8, 2022
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Unmanned vehicle deployed in search for missing from boat
SHARI, Hokkaido (Jiji Press) — An unmanned underwater vehicle was deployed Sunday in a search for 12...
May 8, 2022
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Donald Keene’s teenage writing on Flaubert shows ‘exquisite sense of literature’
A dissertation on Gustave Flaubert written by Donald Keene in his youth is introduced in a magazine ...
May 8, 2022
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Half of college juniors caring for family members worry about jobs
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nearly half of university juniors in Japan who have provided care for family me...
May 7, 2022
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Tall order: 1,200-year-old tradition continues in Nagano Prefecture’s Suwa district
Passionate cries fill the air as hundreds of participants lug a giant fir trunk through the Suwa dis...
May 7, 2022
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Lunar probe uses eco-friendly water-powered thrusters for propulsion
Space propulsion methods are diversifying with the creation of water-powered thrusters that are safe...
May 7, 2022
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Lviv National Opera to hold online concerts to raise money for Ukraine
LVIV, Ukraine — The Lviv National Opera, which had been closed since Russia invaded Ukraine, will re...
May 6, 2022
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Work begins on tunnel to release treated water in Japan
Tokyo Electric Power Holdings Inc. on Thursday began work to excavate an undersea tunnel that will r...
May 6, 2022
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Transportation networks clogged as Golden Week holiday period nears end
The tail end of Golden Week travel peaked Thursday, as vacationers wrapped up the first holiday seas...
May 6, 2022
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Japan boat disaster firm lacked legally required staffer
The operator of the Kazu I tour boat that sank last month off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido wi...
May 6, 2022
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