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Japan to Introduce Online Mental Health Checks to Prevent Child Suicide
The government is to introduce online mental health checks for children to help identify those at r...
June 3, 2023
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Heavy Rain Hits Pacific Coast Areas of Japan
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Heavy rain lashed areas mainly along the Pacific coast from western to eastern Ja...
June 3, 2023
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Diet Enacts Bills to Promote My Number System
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Diet on Friday enacted bills designed to promote the use of 12-digit My Num...
June 3, 2023
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Organ Donations on the Upswing in Japan
The number of organ donors in Japan who are brain-dead or died from cardiac arrest has been increasi...
June 3, 2023
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Teacher Recruitment Tests Likely to Be Moved Up a Month
Amid the increasingly serious shortage of teachers, the education ministry will likely move up the s...
June 3, 2023
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Tokaido Shinkansen Partially Suspended Due to Typhoon
Service on the Tokaido Shinkansen line was partially suspended on Friday afternoon due to heavy rain...
June 2, 2023
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Shogi Star Sota Fujii Becomes Youngest Meijin Titleholder
TAKAYAMA, Nagano (Jiji Press) — Professional shogi star Sota Fujii on Thursday became the youngest p...
June 2, 2023
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Heavy Rain Batters Wide Areas of Japan
A typhoon and seasonal rain front brought heavy rain to prefectures along Japan’s Pacific coast on F...
June 2, 2023
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Wakayama Prefecture City Issues Evacuation Order As Rivers Exceed Flood Warning Levels
The government of Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, issued its highest Level 5 evacuation order at around...
June 2, 2023
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Harvest Season Arrives for Japanese Plums in Gunma
A worker picks Japanese plums from a tree in the Misato Plum Grove of Takasaki on Thursday at the st...
June 2, 2023
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NHK Chief Apologizes for Spending Plan
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Nobuo Inaba, president of NHK, on Thursday apologized for an improper spending ...
June 2, 2023
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Heavy Rain Drenches Kochi Pref., Raising Risk of Landslides, Flooding
The Japan Meteorological Agency said Friday that a linear precipitation band occurred in Kochi Prefe...
June 2, 2023
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Tokyo’s New Subscription Service for Diapers Eases Burden on Parents and Nursery Schools
Tokyo’s Toshima Ward has introduced a subscription service for diapers at all of its municipal nurs...
June 2, 2023
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Sota Fujii, 20, Youngest Ever to Take Shogi Meijin Title
Twenty-year-old challenger Sota Fujii defeated shogi Meijin titleholder Akira Watanabe, 39, on Thurs...
June 1, 2023
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4.4-Magnitude Quake Hits Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture
An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.4 struck Kagoshima Prefecture at 11:28 a.m. Thursday,...
June 1, 2023
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