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Expo 2025 Pavilion Delays Spur Japan to Take More Action
The 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo is less than two years away, and fears are mounting that any further dela...
August 4, 2023
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Survey: 80％ of Municipalities Not Ready for Disaster Waste Storage
Nearly 80% of 109 major municipal governments, including prefectural capitals and ordinance-designat...
August 3, 2023
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Japanese Tourist Killed in Mexico Road Accident
NEW YORK — A van carrying Japanese tourists collided with another vehicle in Mexico on Tuesday, kill...
August 3, 2023
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‘DBS’ Background Checks Likely to Cover All School, Childcare Staff
A policy requiring background checks for employment in education and childcare is likely to apply to...
August 3, 2023
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Aging Parents Press for Return of Abductees from N. Korea
Sakie Yokota, whose then-13-year-old daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted by North Korea in 1977, cal...
August 3, 2023
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150,000 Households Left without Power by Typhoon No. 6
Large-scale power outages continue in Okinawa Prefecture as a result of a large and extremely strong...
August 3, 2023
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Dolphin Bites Swimmer at Fukui Beach
A dolphin bit a swimmer at a beach in Fukui City on Wednesday, according to the Fukui Coast Guard. ...
August 3, 2023
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Spent Nuclear Storage Facility Proposed in Yamaguchi
KAMINOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Jiji Press) — Chugoku Electric Power Co. on Wednesday proposed building an in...
August 3, 2023
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Ukrainian Artist Seeks Peace through Picture-based Storytelling
A Ukrainian artist who fled Russia’s invasion of her country has created a kamishibai picture-card s...
August 3, 2023
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Japan Seeks to Help International Visitors from Getting Heatstroke
With international visitor numbers increasing again as COVID-19 border control measures have been ea...
August 3, 2023
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Cancer Causes ¥2.86 Tril. Annual Economic Losses for Japanese People
The annual economic burden of cancer on society is estimated to be about ¥2.86 trillion, of which ab...
August 2, 2023
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Powerful Typhoon Kills Man in Okinawa Pref.
A 90-year-old man died in Okinawa Prefecture after being pinned under a garage that collapsed in st...
August 2, 2023
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Morioka’s Sansa Odori Parade Kicks Off Tohoku Festival Season
Taiko drummers parade down the street on the opening day of the Iwate Morioka Sansa Odori Festival i...
August 2, 2023
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Tokyo Logs Record 28.7 C Average Temperature in July
The average temperature in central Tokyo last month was 28.7 C, 3 C above the July average and a rec...
August 2, 2023
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‘Secret Snapper Hunters’ Arrested on Suspicion of Extorting Furtive Image-Taker
Secretly taking images up someone’s skirt constitutes a crime, but so does extorting offenders to pa...
August 2, 2023
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