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Abu, Yamaguchi Pref., secures 90% of mistakenly sent relief money
ABU, Yamaguchi (Jiji Press) — The western Japan town of Abu has secured some 90 pct of the ¥46.3 mil...
May 24, 2022
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Biden meets families of victims abducted by North Korea
Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea met U.S. President Joe Biden at the Sta...
May 24, 2022
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Beekeeping experiences major buzz in urban areas
May 20 is World Bee Day, as designated by the United Nations. At a building in Tokyo’s Ginza distric...
May 24, 2022
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Did Japanese ship rescue Greek refugees 100 yrs ago?
In 1922, a Japanese ship saved many Greeks and other refugees in a Turkish port city during the war....
May 23, 2022
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Work resumes to raise Japanese sightseeing boat, 1 month after tragedy
Monday marked the one-month anniversary of an accident in which a sightseeing boat sunk off the Shir...
May 23, 2022
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Shrine congregation carries 3 mikoshi portable shrines at Sanja festival in Tokyo for 1st time in 3 years
Members of the congregation of Asakusa Shrine in Taito Ward, Tokyo, carried three mikoshi portable s...
May 23, 2022
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Tokyo Skytree marks 10th anniversary of opening
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo Skytree in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, known as the world’s tallest self-sustaini...
May 23, 2022
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Telesurgery may soon be practical option in Japan
FUKUOKA — Telesurgery, where, for example, surgeons in urban areas remotely perform surgery on patie...
May 23, 2022
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Fast, safe bullet trains going strong for 30 years
Nozomi bullet trains, the fastest among the Tokaido Shinkansen rolling stock connecting Tokyo and Os...
May 22, 2022
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Utility workers display head for heights
Kansai Electric Power Co. workers scale 10-meter-high mock utility poles at a training facility in I...
May 22, 2022
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Strong quake hits eastern Japan
A strong earthquake off Ibaraki Prefecture rocked eastern Japan on Sunday, measuring lower 5 on the ...
May 22, 2022
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Govt: No mask needed indoors if social distancing maintained
Masks need not be worn in indoor public spaces if a person stays at least 2 meters away from others ...
May 22, 2022
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Salvage operation begins to raise sunken Hokkaido tour boat
SHARI, Hokkaido — Preparations have begun to raise the Kazu I sightseeing boat that sunk off the Shi...
May 21, 2022
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Rarely displayed Ryukyu Islands stamps issued under U.S. control to go on show
Seizing on the 50th anniversary of the return of Okinawa to Japan, the local branch of Japan Post Co...
May 21, 2022
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Seiji Fujishiro’s woodblock print depicting Zelenskyy on display in Miyazaki Airport
MIYAZAKI — A woodblock print by 98-year-old shadowgraph artist Seiji Fujishiro depicting Ukrainian P...
May 20, 2022
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