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Defense & SecurityProspects for return of northern territories recede
Russia’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement issued Monday, said it will suspend peace treaty negotiati...
March 23, 2022
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General NewsTwin panda cubs at Ueno Zoo to go back on display Friday
The public will see heavier, more agile twin giant panda cubs when they are put back on display at T...
March 23, 2022
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Yomiuri EditorialWarnings highlight insufficient measures to bolster electricity supply
Hit by a cold wave, the Kanto region has fallen into the worst power crisis since the 2011 Great Eas...
March 23, 2022
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Yomiuri EditorialRussia is to blame for suspension of bilateral negotiations on northern territories
Russia bears full responsibility for the suspension of negotiations. The Japanese government must st...
March 23, 2022
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ArtCultural agency wants Japan to host international art fair in 2025
The Agency for Cultural Affairs wants to invite organizers of an international art fair to hold an e...
March 23, 2022
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Social SeriesOkinawa 50 yrs since return: National political affairs / Japanese PM conveyed to Clinton ‘hope’ for return of Futenma in 1996
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Okinawa’s return to Japan. This is the third installment of ...
March 23, 2022
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RussiaRussia halts peace treaty talks with Japan over Ukraine sanctions
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Monday it has no intention of continuing peace treaty talks with Japa...
March 22, 2022
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General NewsTohoku Shinkansen service partially restored
Operation of the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train resumed Tuesday in parts of a section that was suspe...
March 22, 2022
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CoronavirusHard-hit hotels, restaurants try to utilize negative coronavirus certificates
Quasi-emergency measures against the novel coronavirus have been lifted throughout the nation, but t...
March 22, 2022
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General NewsTEPCO asks for supply from 7 firms; power consumption rate exceeds 100%
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. announced Tuesday that its power supply would be supplem...
March 22, 2022
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Japan In FocusKitakyushu university students make tomato sake, eye market
KITAKYUSHU — A group of university students has succeeded in brewing sake using locally harvested to...
March 22, 2022
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CompaniesLow-temperature cookers heat up marketplace
More and more people are coming to love bringing out the flavor of ingredients by cooking at low tem...
March 22, 2022
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Japan In Focus‘Tipsy mackerel’ to go on sale in Yamaguchi Prefecture
YAMAGUCHI — Sales of mackerel grown with food mixed with sake kasu, or pressed sake lees, will go in...
March 22, 2022
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Washington PostLife underground: Ukrainian families make new homes in the Kharkiv subway
KHARKIV, Ukraine - A bunch of tulips sits in the window of the subway car that Vladlena Igorivna, he...
March 22, 2022
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Politics & Government‘Kishida diplomacy’ takes off in earnest, aiming to link Asia and West
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has returned from India and Cambodia, having called for both countries’...
March 22, 2022