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Associated PressHong Kong’s New National Security Bill Includes Stiff Penalties and More Power to Suppress Dissent
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong unveiled a new national security bill Friday that proposes up to life ...
March 8, 2024
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Film & TVVeteran Action ‘Suit Actors’ Are Like Living Cultural Treasures
In February, I organized a Kanreki Matsuri (a festival celebrating the age of 60), which was attende...
March 8, 2024
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Associated PressAnd the Oscar Goes to … a Movie Most People Have Seen
NEW YORK (AP) — The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very ...
March 8, 2024
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Associated PressFloridians can ‘Stand Their Ground’ and Kill Threatening Bears under Bill Going to DeSantis
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — So long as they don't eat them, stuff them or turn them into hats for th...
March 8, 2024
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Associated PressBiden will Announce Plans for a Temporary Aid Port on Gaza’s Coast as Cease-Fire Talks Stall
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military will deploy to set up a temporary port off the coast of Gaza,...
March 8, 2024
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General NewsSanyo Shinkansen Trains Resume Operations (UPDATE 1)
Sanyo Shinkansen trains resumed operations at 10:30 a.m. Friday. Some trains have been canceled, ...
March 8, 2024
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Associated PressBiden will Try to Use State of the Union to Contrast With Trump, Sell Voters on a Second Term
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is aiming to use his State of the Union address Thursday ev...
March 8, 2024
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ReutersSweden Joins NATO as War in Ukraine Prompts Security Rethink
WASHINGTON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Ru...
March 8, 2024
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Social Series13 Years Since the Great East Japan Earthquake / Soil Decontamination Advancing in Fukushima Pref.; More Evacuees Able to Return Home, But Not Many Do
“I wish we had been allowed to return home a little earlier,” lamented Takeshi Horikawa, 75, who ...
March 8, 2024
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General NewsIwate Restaurant To Sell ¥311 Ramen In Memory Of 2011 Disaster And To Raise Money For Those Affected By Noto Earthquake
MIYAKO, Iwate — A ramen restaurant in Miyako will sell a signature dish for ¥311 on Monday, the 1...
March 8, 2024
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General NewsBus Carrying Foreign Tourists Crashes into Large Truck; 7 Injured
A tourist bus rear-ended a large truck on the Meishin Expressway in Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, on ...
March 7, 2024
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Noto Peninsula EarthquakeJapan’s Quake-Hit Fish Market to Hold Event in Kanazawa on March 23; One-Day Market Organized by Noto’s Wajima Morning Market Members
KANAZAWA — People who owned stores in the Wajima Morning Market in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, h...
March 7, 2024
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Economy“Shunto” Pay Hike Demands Top 5% for 1st Time in 30 Yrs
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The weighted average of wage hikes requested by 3,102 member unions of the J...
March 7, 2024
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General NewsTokyo’s 23 Wards, Greater Kanto and Koshin Regions Expected to See Snowfall Friday Morning; Warning-Level Snow Possible
The Kanto and Koshin regions, mainly areas inland, are expected to see snowfall on Friday morning...
March 7, 2024
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ScienceJapan Team Finds Mechanism behind Middle-Age Weight Gain
Nagoya (Jiji Press)—A Japanese research team has discovered a mechanism apparently behind why peo...
March 7, 2024