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3 Months After Expo’s Opening, Visitors Top 10 Million; 164,000 Visitors Attend on Saturday
OSAKA — A total of 10.08 million general visitors have attended the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo in the...
July 13, 2025
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Blue Impulse Planes Fly over Osaka-Kansai Expo Site; Halfway Point of Event Reached
OSAKA — A team of Air Self-Defense Force pilots performed an aerobatic demonstration at the 2025 ...
July 13, 2025
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Typhoon Nari Approaching Japan’s Kanto Region; Heavy Rain, Strong Wind Expected on Monday
A tropical cyclone that developed into Typhoon Nari early Sunday is expected to approach the Kant...
July 13, 2025
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Stronger Efforts Needed to Cure ‘Drug Loss’ in Japan So That Needed Medicines Reach Patients
The government is stepping up efforts to combat the increasingly acute problem of drug loss, in w...
July 13, 2025
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4 Giant Pandas Seen Well after Returning to China from Wakayama Prefecture
SHANGHAI — Four giant pandas who returned to China last month from the Adventure World theme park...
July 12, 2025
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Brown Bear Kills Newspaper Carrier in Residential Area of Hokkaido
A 52-year-old newspaper delivery worker was attacked and killed by a brown bear in the southern p...
July 12, 2025
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75％ of Private School Operators Do Not Do Sexual Background Checks before Hiring
A recent survey found that 75% of school corporations that operate private kindergartens, element...
July 12, 2025
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Bear Culled in Iwate Prefecture; It May Have Mauled 81-Year-Old Woman to Death
MORIOKA — A bear believed to have mauled an 81-year-old woman to death was culled Friday morning ...
July 11, 2025
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Tokyo’s Nerima Ward Marks 110 Millimeters of Rain in 1 Hour; Heavy Rain and Flood Warnings Issued in Capital
Heavy rain fell primarily in the northern Kanto and Tohoku regions on Thursday afternoon, with 11...
July 10, 2025
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Foreign Drivers License Conversion Rules to Be Toughened; NPA to Make Testing More Thorough, Exclude Tourists
Regarding the system for converting an overseas driver’s license to a Japanese one, the National ...
July 10, 2025
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Tohoku Shinknsen Line Briefly Suspends Operations between Tokyo, Sendai (Update 1)
The Tohoku Shinkansen high-speed railway suspended its operations at around 1:35 p.m. on Thursday...
July 10, 2025
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Mt. Fuji Trails on Shizuoka Side Open for Climbing Season; Prefecture Begins Charging ¥4,000 Entry Fee
SHIZUOKA — Mt. Fuji trails opened for the summer climbing season on the Shizuoka Prefecture side ...
July 10, 2025
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Health, Mental Fatigue Observed Amid Successive Tokara Islands Quakes; Medical Concern over Anxiety, Appetite Effects
KAGOSHIMA — Thursday marks one week since an earthquake measuring lower 6 on the Japanese seismic...
July 10, 2025
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Heavy Rain Expected to Hit Tokyo from Afternoon to Evening; Linear Precipitation Bands Could Form Above Capital, 5 Prefectures in Kanto Region
Heavy rain is forecasted to hit Tokyo and five prefectures in the Kanto region from 3 p.m. to 9 p...
July 10, 2025
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Library with Ukrainian-Language Books for Evacuees Established by Ukrainian Woman
A private library in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, started by a Ukrainian woman and featuring Ukrainian-la...
July 10, 2025
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