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General NewsPlan mooted to submerge reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant
The Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corp. (NDF) is considering the feas...
September 3, 2022
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Travel SpotsGhibli Park to open in Japan in 2 months
Ghibli Park will open its gates in eight weeks’ time at the park to commemorate Expo 2005 Aichi in N...
September 3, 2022
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Crime & CourtsArrested Tokyo 2020 exec linked to another shady sponsorship deal
The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee executive board member already under arrest in an Olympics-relat...
September 3, 2022
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Asia-PacificNepal: Death rate for chronic lung disease is the world’s highest
On Aug. 19, a 32-year-old man from Kapilvastu district was admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teac...
September 3, 2022
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TennisSerena Williams loses to Tomljanovic in U.S. Open farewell
NEW YORK (AP) — Leave it to Serena Williams to not want to go quietly, to not want this match, this ...
September 3, 2022
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Japan In FocusEhime: Fortress ruins become place for peace education
IKATA, Ehime — Jutting out of the west side of Shikoku in the direction of Kyushu, Cape Sada Peninsu...
September 3, 2022
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Politics & GovernmentJapan, U.S. to continue cooperation over climate change
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan and the United States confirmed in a joint statement Friday that they wil...
September 3, 2022
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Defense & SecurityG20 energy ministers fail to adopt joint statement
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Energy ministers of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies ended thei...
September 3, 2022
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General NewsJapan mom, 86, wants to see daughter abducted by N. Korea ‘at least once’
Sept. 17 marks 20 years since the first Japan-North Korea summit meeting, during which Pyongyang adm...
September 3, 2022
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Washington PostHe used AI to win a fine-arts competition. Was it cheating?
When Jason Allen submitted his “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” into the Colorado State Fair’s fine-arts co...
September 3, 2022
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Washington PostArlington offered $23M for Amazon HQ2. So far, it hasn’t paid a dime
When Amazon announced its plans to build a second headquarters somewhere in North America, cities an...
September 3, 2022
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Washington PostMLB is overdue for a female umpire. One may be on the way.
PORTLAND, Maine – The first thing to know about Jen Pawol – and listen closely, because this is impo...
September 3, 2022
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BaseballPadres rout Dodgers 7-1, send L.A. on rare 3-game skid
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yu Darvish combined with two relievers on a four-hitter, Manny Machado and Brando...
September 3, 2022
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Washington PostDeep inside bustling Mar-a-Lago, a storage room where secrets were stashed
The ornate centerpiece of the historic Mar-a-Lago estate that Donald Trump bought for cheap in 1985 ...
September 3, 2022
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Washington PostUkrainian’s war amputees heal through horse therapy
SUKHODIL, Ukraine – Danylo Ischenko dreams of walking beside his fiancée on their wedding day. Boli...
September 3, 2022