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ReutersFamed Chinese Rainmaker Goes Missing in Latest Executive Disappearance
(Reuters) – Chinese dealmaker Bao Fan, founder of investment bank China Renaissance Holdings Ltd 191...
February 18, 2023
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Yomiuri EditorialMove Fast to Identify and Fix Problems to Ensure a Near-Future Launch
The first launch of Japan’s new H3 mainstay rocket was aborted moments before liftoff. It is hoped t...
February 18, 2023
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Yomiuri Editorial
Govt Should Promote Competition Regarding Smartphone App Commissions
Concerns are growing over the oligopoly of two giant U.S. IT companies over the market for providing...
February 18, 2023
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Japan In FocusKagawa: ‘Boat Gymnasium’ by Tange to Be Demolished
TAKAMATSU — The structure affectionally known as the “boat gymnasium,” designed by world-renowned ar...
February 18, 2023
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General NewsJapan’s Digital Minister Admits Failings in COVID Contact-Tracing App
Digital minister Taro Kono has admitted that the government’s COVID-19 contact-tracing app, COCOA, w...
February 18, 2023
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Politics & GovernmentJapan Minister’s ‘Ask the Balloon’ Remark in 2020 Causes Stir
A comment made by then Defense Minister Taro Kono at a press conference in June 2020 has created con...
February 18, 2023
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Politics & GovernmentKishida Creates New Role to Promote Understanding of LGBT Community
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday gave a special adviser a new role of facilitating understandi...
February 18, 2023
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General News1,200 Corrections Made in Atlas for High School Students
About 1,200 corrections have been made to an atlas distributed by major textbook publisher Tokyo Sho...
February 18, 2023
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General News‘Barefoot Gen’ to Be Removed From Hiroshima Peace Education Textbook
HIROSHIMA — The Hiroshima city board of education plans to replace a long-used and globally known ma...
February 18, 2023
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EconomyBOJ to Start New Test on Digital Currency in April
Tokyo —The Bank of Japan has said that it will start a new test on the feasibility of a central bank...
February 18, 2023
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AFP-JIJIQatar Sheikh Bids for Man Utd as Billionaire Ratcliffe Enters Race
A consortium led by a Qatari banker announced Friday it had submitted an offer to take full control ...
February 18, 2023
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Travel SpotsNagasaki: Gibbon’s Father Identified 2 Years after Mysterious Birth
SASEBO, Nagasaki — Two years after a white-handed gibbon gave birth unexpectedly to an offspring whi...
February 18, 2023
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Associated PressEx-PMs of UK, Australia, Belgium Urge Tough Action on China
TOKYO (AP) — Former leaders from Australia, Britain and Belgium called Friday for a tougher internat...
February 18, 2023
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EconomyPanel Calls on Govt to Sell All Shoko Chukin Shareholdings
TOKYO — An industry ministry experts panel came up with a report Friday proposing the Japanese gover...
February 18, 2023
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Washington Post
Microsoft’s AI Chatbot is Going off the Rails
When Marvin von Hagen, a 23-year-old studying technology in Germany, asked Microsoft’s new AI-powere...
February 18, 2023