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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, ...

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    February 13, 2021

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    February 12, 2021

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    February 11, 2021

  • Prospects are Bleak for Reconstruction of Hokkaido City

    The bankruptcy of a ski resort operator in Hokkaido’s Yubari, the only local municipality in Japan u...

    February 9, 2021

  • Police to Get Ability to Immediately Examine Suspicious Drones

    The government plans to create a new system that would allow authorities who spot drones in the sky ...

    February 7, 2021

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    February 5, 2021

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    February 5, 2021

  • Couple who Experienced 2011 Quake Opens Shop in Kyushu to Help Residents Hit by Torrential Rain

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    February 3, 2021

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    February 3, 2021

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    February 1, 2021

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    January 31, 2021

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    The medical records of patients at a number of medical and nursing-care facilities were made accessi...

    January 31, 2021

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