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BOJ Decides to Raise Key Policy Rate to 0.5％
The Bank of Japan decided Friday to raise its short-term policy rate target from the current leve...
January 26, 2025
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Japan May Sit Out Meeting On Treaty To Ban N-Weapons;Ishiba Contemplates Value Of U.S. Nuclear Umbrella
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has begun making arrangements to forgo participating as an observer...
January 25, 2025
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Yurikamome Line Suspended Due to Power Outage; Passengers in Stranded Train Evacuated on Foot
Yurikamome Line services in Tokyo were temporarily suspended along the line’s entire length due t...
January 25, 2025
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Mayor of Japan’s Hyogo Pref. Town Plans to Present Donald Trump with Solid Gold Playing Cards
KOBE — The mayor of Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, plans to gift U.S. President Donald Trump a deck of ...
January 24, 2025
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South Korea Returns Buddha Statue from Kannonji Temple to Japanese Delegation; Statue to Be Lent to South Korean Temple Until May
DAEJEON, South Korea — A Buddha statue stolen in 2012 from Kannonji temple in Tsushima, Nagasaki ...
January 24, 2025
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Mito Makes Reiwa Versions of Edo Lord’s Recipes; Local, Modern Spin Given to Edo-Period Dishes
MITO — The Ibaraki prefectural government and others are creating “Reiwa-era versions” of dishes ...
January 24, 2025
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Ex-SMAP Members Say They ‘Cannot Find the Words’ Regarding Nakai’s Case
The three former members of disbanded male pop group SMAP said Thursday they were not able to fin...
January 23, 2025
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Ex-Aquarium Director Accused of Fraud Over Rare Tortoises; Facility Allegedly Falsified Reports to Receive Subsidies
Four people, including a former director and an incumbent vice director of the Sunshine Aquarium ...
January 23, 2025
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EX-SMAP Leader Masahiro Nakai to Retire over Scandal, Apologizes for Causing ‘Distress’
Masahiro Nakai, former leader of disbanded male pop group SMAP, will retire from show business ov...
January 23, 2025
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Minpaku Lodging Services Rapidly Expanding in Tochigi Pref.; Numbers Rise as More Foreign Tourists Visit Area
UTSUNOMIYA — Minpaku private lodging services using vacant houses and vacation homes have expande...
January 23, 2025
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Masahiro Nakai, Japan TV Personality, Announces His Retirement
Masahiro Nakai, 52, a TV personality whose problematic behavior with a woman developed into a sca...
January 23, 2025
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Mother of Megumi Yokota Seeks Donald Trump’s Help to Return Japanese Abducted by North Korea
The mother of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea decades ago, on Tuesday sought help ...
January 23, 2025
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Hiroshima Gov. Urges Trump to Visit Hiroshima; Wants U.S. President to Create Path to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki has sent a request to U.S. President Donald Trump, urg...
January 22, 2025
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Big Temperature Change Expected in Japan from February to March
The temperature in Japan is expected to be roughly average in February, warmer than usual in Marc...
January 22, 2025
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Japan’s Fuji TV Sought by Minister to Conduct Early Investigation on Masahiro Nakai’s Problem
Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Seiichiro Murakami called for Fuji Television Networ...
January 21, 2025
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