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Services Emerge to Recycle School Backpacks into Leather Goods
Services that can remake used Japanese-style school backpacks for elementary students — called rando...
March 1, 2021
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Hokkaido Ainu release video featuring traditional performances to present the culture to the world
SAPPORO — Hoping to further promote Ainu culture on the world stage, performers of traditional Ainu ...
February 28, 2021
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17th Century Italian Book Features Depictions of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu
An Italian book written in the latter half of the 17th century was recently confirmed to contain por...
February 27, 2021
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Mobile Supermarkets Attracting Urban Residents amid Pandemic in Japan
Mobile supermarkets, which are lightweight trucks loaded with various items, have been attracting mo...
February 25, 2021
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Heroic doctor works to preserve lessons from Tohoku disaster
SENDAI — Takeshi Kanno, a 41-year-old gastroenterologist at the Tohoku University Hospital in Sendai...
February 24, 2021
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Expert Predicts Japan’s Number of Births will Fall below 800,000 in 2021
There is growing concern that the coronavirus pandemic will accelerate the decline in Japan’s birthr...
February 23, 2021
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Police Canine Goes from Doghouse to Hero
KOBE — A male police dog that once abandoned its responsibility, has finally had its day. The hero ...
February 20, 2021
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10 Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Child of Hope Will Soon Turn 10
FUKUSHIMA — Ten years will soon have passed since the massive tsunami and the accident at a nuclear ...
February 20, 2021
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Panel: Japan quake caused no large tsunami because of deep seismic center
There were no large tsunami as a result of the quake that struck off Fukushima Prefecture late Satur...
February 16, 2021
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Nara shop collects used randoseru backpacks for those in need
NARA — A shop in Nara is collecting old randoseru backpacks used by elementary school children for d...
February 16, 2021
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Junior high school student invents lifesaving lattice after Kyoto Animation tragedy
Taking a lesson from the Kyoto Animation arson attack in July 2019, in which 36 people were killed, ...
February 15, 2021
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Japan universities neglect background checks on foreign students, researchers
About 40% of private universities nationwide failed to conduct background checks on foreign students...
February 15, 2021
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In These Fukushima Schools, Time Stopped after 2011 Disaster
FUKUSHIMA — In a difficult-to-return area of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, where the Fukushima No. 1 ...
February 13, 2021
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Kumamoto: Castle Regains Pre-disaster Appearance in Show of Recovery from Earthquake
KUMAMOTO — The towers of Kumamoto Castle have been restored to their majestic pre-disaster appearanc...
February 12, 2021
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Kenzaburo Oe Entrusts Manuscripts with University of Tokyo
Novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe, 86, has entrusted more than 10,000 pages of his manu...
February 12, 2021
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