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Washington PostBiden’s Border Plans Face a Major Test as Title 42 Restrictions End
President Biden began sweeping aside his predecessor's restrictive immigration policies on his first...
May 11, 2023
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General NewsNew Service Makes It Possible for My Number Cardholders to Leave Their IDs at Home
A service enabling My Number cardholders to use a smartphone app in place of the physical identifica...
May 11, 2023
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Politics & GovernmentKeidanren Sets Up Fund for Improving Japan-ROK Ties
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, said Wednesday that it has complet...
May 11, 2023
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Politics & GovernmentJapan’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy Council Holds 1st Meeting with Aim to Create Rules for AI Use
The government held the first meeting of its artificial intelligence strategy council on Thursday to...
May 11, 2023
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Washington PostRep. George Santos Pleads Not Guilty to 13 Counts of Financial Crimes
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - Rep. George Santos, the freshman Republican congressman whose myriad falsehood...
May 11, 2023
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Defense & SecurityRussia Blasts NATO’s Plan to Open Office in Japan
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Russia on Wednesday criticized NATO’s plan to open an office in Japan as leadin...
May 11, 2023
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Wider WorldFoundation prints 3D prosthetics, provides them free in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The first thing 11-year-old Mia Rodriguez says she did with her new prost...
May 11, 2023
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Crime & CourtsSchoolteacher Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Tokyo Man
A 36-year-old junior high school teacher was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering a man in E...
May 11, 2023
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ReutersYellen Says G7 Members Looking at How to Counter China’s ‘Economic Coercion’
NIIGATA, Japan, May 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday said many member...
May 11, 2023
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ReutersSoftBank Posts $7.18 Bln Annual Loss as Vision Fund Slides Further
TOKYO, May 11 (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Group Corp 9984.T reported an annual net loss of 970 bill...
May 11, 2023
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ReutersTakeda Pharma Says Full-Year Profit Rose 6.4%
TOKYO, May 11 (Reuters) - Takeda Pharmaceutical Co 4502.T said on Thursday its full-year profit rose...
May 11, 2023
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Defense & SecurityJapanese Foreign Minister Protests Chinese Ambassador’s Remarks on Japan, Taiwan
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on Wednesday strongly protested remarks made about the Taiwan sit...
May 11, 2023
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General NewsUpper-5 Quake Hits Chiba Pref. for 1st Time in 11 Years
Four people were slightly injured after a strong earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 5.2 struc...
May 11, 2023
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Books & LiteratureFrench Author: Reading Helps Us Understand People Different from Ourselves
Clara Dupont-Monod, who won the first Choix Goncourt du Japon prize with her novel “S’adapter,” spok...
May 11, 2023
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CompaniesToyota Forecasts Operating Profit to Exceed ¥3 Trillion in First for Japan
Toyota Motor Corp. announced Wednesday that it expects an operating profit of ¥3 trillion in its con...
May 11, 2023