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General NewsAsari clam scam prompts tougher rules on food-origin labels
The government has toughened food origin classification rules following the exposure of mislabeling ...
April 25, 2022
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General NewsMore subway stations designated as evacuation facilities, but none in Tokyo
There is a growing movement in Japan to designate underground train stations as evacuation faciliti...
April 25, 2022
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Washington PostThe Belarusian railway saboteurs who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv
When Russian troops first streamed across the Belarusian border into Ukraine for what they had assum...
April 25, 2022
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General NewsPaper cranes, fortunes in capsule toys provide jobs for handicapped
NARITA, Chiba — Capsule toy machines that dispense paper cranes along with fortune-telling slips in ...
April 25, 2022
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ReutersShanghai fences up COVID-hit areas, fueling fresh outcry
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of COVID-19 have erected fences outs...
April 24, 2022
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Associated PressHataoka takes advantage of Ko’s late meltdown in L.A. Open
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nasa Hataoka took advantage of Jin Young Ko's late meltdown Saturday to take a fo...
April 24, 2022
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Politics & GovernmentLDP candidate certain to win upper house by-election in Ishikawa Pref.
KANAZAWA, Ishikawa (Jiji Press) — Shuji Miyamoto of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is certain t...
April 24, 2022
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General News10 confirmed dead after rescue operation for sightseeing boat
Passengers on the sightseeing boat that went missing off Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido on Saturday...
April 24, 2022
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Associated PressModi visits Indian-controlled Kashmir amid tight security
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Himalayan Kashmir for his first public event on Sunday ...
April 24, 2022
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Washington PostBlinken and Austin to visit war-battered Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will ...
April 24, 2022
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General NewsMissing Shiretoko boat was journeying on popular World Heritage course
The area off Shiretoko Peninsula where a sightseeing boat went missing is part of a natural World H...
April 24, 2022
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Associated PressHow France’s old-school voting system works
Paper ballots tucked in paper envelopes. No absentee voting, and no early voting either. French vot...
April 24, 2022
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ReutersUkraine says Russia deploys Iskander-M launchers near border
Russia has deployed Iskander-M mobile battlefield missile launchers within 60 kilometers of the Ukra...
April 24, 2022
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Associated PressUkraine marks Orthodox Easter with prayers for those trapped
The sun came out as Ukrainians marked Orthodox Easter in the capital, Kyiv, on Sunday with prayers f...
April 24, 2022
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Reuters
Swiss veto German request to re-export ammunition to Ukraine – paper
ZURICH (Reuters) — Neutral Switzerland has held up German arms deliveries to Ukraine by blocking th...
April 24, 2022