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Beautiful brollies
Colorful Japanese umbrellas are illuminated at the Miraizu city community exchange center in Mima, T...
January 26, 2022
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Horie’s yacht leaves for U.S. for Trans-Pacific solo voyage
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo (Jiji Press) — Japanese sea adventurer Kenichi Horie’s sailboat left for San Fran...
January 25, 2022
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Crafting colored crackers in Ishikawa Pref. town
A couple dries colorful mochi as a step in making arare bite-size rice crackers in the town of Shika...
January 25, 2022
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Shinjuku schools introduce staggered start times as coronavirus spreads
All 39 elementary and junior high schools in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Monday began staggering times ...
January 24, 2022
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Document found in Paris details aftermath of Soviet invasion of Manchuria
A document has been found in Paris describing the circumstances under the Soviet occupation of Manch...
January 24, 2022
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Decline of company teams sees athletes forge dual careers
A drop in the number of company teams is driving amateur athletes to acquire job skills in order to ...
January 23, 2022
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A splash of color
Staffers work on hina dolls ahead of the Girl’s Festival on March 3, at the workshop of Matsuyoshi N...
January 23, 2022
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Syria-born local assembly member aims to narrow mindset gaps in Japan
Last September, newly elected assembly member Nour Soltan posed his first question to the town assem...
January 22, 2022
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37% of Japanese say ties with S. Korea unimportant: survey
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Around 37% of people in Japan do not think that the country’s future relationsh...
January 22, 2022
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6.4-Magnitude earthquake rocks southwestern Japan
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — An earthquake with estimated magnitude of 6.4 occurred at the depth of about 40...
January 22, 2022
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Best of luck
The Yomiuri Shimbun The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] Dolls depicting Sugawara no ...
January 22, 2022
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Pregnant horses at Hokkaido breeding center run for winter exercise
Pregnant farm horses run in a snow-covered field at the National Livestock Breeding Center’s Tokachi...
January 21, 2022
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Red crown cranes walk amid dreamlike mist lingering over Hokkaido river
Red crown cranes, a nationally protected species, walk and flutter their wings in the Setsuri River ...
January 20, 2022
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Residents can stay in Fukushima town for 1st time since 2011 nuclear disaster
FUKUSHIMA — Some former residents have begun “preparatory stays” in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, st...
January 20, 2022
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Visitors to Japan hit record low of 245,900 in 2021
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The estimated number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2021 came to 245,900, hitt...
January 20, 2022
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