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Mt. Fuji Covered with Snow For 1st Time This Season; Announcement Comes 36 Days Later Than Average
The peak of Mt. Fuji was confirmed to be covered with snow for the first time this season, the Ko...
November 7, 2024
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Sake Brewing to Get Bump from UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Designation; Sales Drop in Japan Even as More Sold Abroad
With traditional brewing techniques for making sake, shochu and awamori expected to be registered...
November 7, 2024
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376 Hikers ‘Walk With Sea Breeze’ In Tohoku Event; Michinoku Coastal Trail’s Fifth Anniversary Marked
SOMA, Fukushima — A total of 376 people from across Japan joined a walking event in Soma, Fukushi...
November 7, 2024
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Fukushima Nuclear Debris to Be Removed from Plant, Analyzed at Research Institute
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. decided Tuesday to remove nuclear fuel debris from th...
November 6, 2024
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Mt. Fuji Covered With Snow on Shizuoka Prefecture Side; First Time Since 1894 for Initial Snow to be Seen in November
Mt. Fuji is thinly covered with snow on its Shizuoka prefectural side on Wednesday morning. Accor...
November 6, 2024
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Typhoon Yinxing Growing Stronger, Moving Toward South China Sea; High Wind And Rain May Affect Nansei Islands
Typhoon Yinxing, also referred to as Typhoon No. 22, is expected to move westward to the South Ch...
November 6, 2024
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Monkey Sighted at Employee Area of Tokyo Disney Resort; Urayasu City Govt Calls for Caution
URAYASU, Chiba - The city government of Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, has called for caution after a...
November 6, 2024
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German University Student Missing Since Last Month Found Dead Off the Coast of Wakayama
WAKAYAMA - A German university student who had been missing since last month was found dead off t...
November 6, 2024
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90％ of Students in Japan Acknowledge Importance of Reading Books; But Downward Trend as They Get Older
Nine out of 10 students of elementary, junior high and high schools think reading books is import...
November 5, 2024
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Typhoon Yinxing Expected to Develop Strong; Okinawa May Experience Thunderstorms, Strong Winds, High Waves
Typhoon Yinxing, also known as typhoon No. 22, is moving northwest-northwest east of the Philippi...
November 5, 2024
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20 Sites Found to be Posing as Major Japanese Media Outlets; Expert Suggests Sites Might Have Been Systematically Created
Twenty websites have been found to be posing as major Japanese news outlets, it has been learned....
November 5, 2024
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Apple Harvest at its Peak in Hirosaki; Largest Volume of Apples Produced in Japan
The apple harvest is at its peak and brightly colored apples are lined up in rows at a market in ...
November 5, 2024
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Japanese Sake Brewing to Make Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—An advisory panel to UNESCO has sought to register traditional Japanese sake b...
November 5, 2024
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Welfare Ministry Study Finds Only 11.2％ of Local Governments Have Guidelines for Dealing with Unclaimed Bodies
Only 11.2% of local governments have manuals or internal rules in place for dealing with “unclaim...
November 5, 2024
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Deer-Involved Traffic Accidents Surging in Hokkaido; Growing Population, Decreasing Caution Leads to More Collisions
Traffic accidents caused by Hokkaido’s Yezo sika deer have been surging, including collisions wit...
November 4, 2024
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