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Abalone listed as endangered on global Red List
Several abalone species, including three found in waters around Japan, have been added to the Red Li...
December 13, 2022
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Character meaning battle chosen as this year’s kanji
The kanji for “battle” is rendered by Seihan Mori, head priest of Kiyomizudera temple, in Kyoto on M...
December 12, 2022
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Nuclear experts lay flowers for Hiroshima A-bomb victims
HIROSHIMA (Jiji Press) — Experts participating in an international meeting on nuclear abolition in H...
December 11, 2022
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Unification Church claimed Japan’s ‘right to ask questions’ of group illegal
The group submitted two opinion letters to the education ministry claiming that exercising the right...
December 10, 2022
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Japan govt to ask Unification Church more questions
The government is to ask the Unification Church additional questions — exercising its “right to ques...
December 10, 2022
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Japan tour boat likely flooded through hatch
The Kazu I sightseeing boat, which sank off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in April with 26 peo...
December 9, 2022
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Family members of Unification Church followers welcome upcoming legislation on donations
Families of Unification Church followers held a press conference in Tokyo on Thursday to express the...
December 9, 2022
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Unification Church requested ‘application forms’ for adoption between followers
The Unification Church requested that “adoption application forms” be submitted for adoptions arrang...
December 9, 2022
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1,000 extra welfare officers proposed to help tackle child abuse
The government aims to increase the number of child welfare officers by the end of fiscal 2024, as p...
December 9, 2022
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Japanese veterans of World War II recount horrors of the battlefield
Veterans of World War II, some of them more than 100 years old, continue to recount their experience...
December 8, 2022
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Average age of Japan’s Pacific War veterans tops 100
The average age of former soldiers who served in the Pacific War and receive a military pension has ...
December 8, 2022
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Winter buds: Women make hanamochi decorations at a workshop in Takayama, Gifu Pref.
Women make hanamochi (flower mochi) decorations at a workshop in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, ahead of...
December 8, 2022
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Ready for Christmas
With their lush green leaves, vividly scarlet-hued poinsettias fill a greenhouse at Yatomi, Aichi Pr...
December 8, 2022
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Translation of book about Pearl Harbor attack released in Japan
A former junior high school teacher in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, has translated an English book w...
December 7, 2022
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Japanese botanist’s unfinished illustrated plant guide finally published
Photo courtesy of Kazuoki MakinoTomitaro Makino The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] ...
December 7, 2022
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