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UNESCO-listed Festival Divided Over Letting Girls Ride Floats
TAKAOKA, Toyama — Opinion is divided over whether to allow girls to ride on floats during the Takaok...
March 6, 2023
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Wealthy Residents Mean Tax Bonanza for Japan Island Town
SUO-OSHIMA, Yamaguchi — Known as “the Hawaii of the Seto Inland Sea” for its abundant nature, the is...
March 5, 2023
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Ex-Jewish Evacuee Revisits Kobe after Some 80 Years
KOBE (Jiji Press) — A 95-year-old Jewish man late last month revisited Kobe, where he temporarily st...
March 5, 2023
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Panda Twins at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo to Learn to Live Separately
The twin giant pandas born at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in June 2021 will start learning to live separately f...
March 4, 2023
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Female Polar Bear Dies in Fight at Hokkaido Zoo
KUSHIRO, Hokkaido — Milk, a 10-year-old female polar bear, died in a fight with a male polar bear, t...
March 3, 2023
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Japan Celeb Jun Matsumoto to Participate in Popular Festival in May
HAMAMATSU — Actor-singer Jun Matsumoto will play the part of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in a cavalry pro...
March 3, 2023
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Gender Equality Lowest in Japan among OECD Countries
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Japan has the lowest level of gender equality under the law among the 38 m...
March 3, 2023
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Japan Top Court Finalizes Ruling to Keep Isahaya Bay Gates Closed
TOKYO (Jiji Press) —Japan’s Supreme Court has finalized a high court ruling that floodgates built a...
March 3, 2023
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Nagasaki Museum Revives Japan’s 1st Beer, Produced 400 Years ago
What is believed to be the nation’s first domestically brewed beer, a product made at a Dutch tradin...
March 3, 2023
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Questioning ‘unmanned’ at unmanned stations
The 170-kilometer-long Oigawa River winds its way through the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture. A...
March 2, 2023
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Mask-Free Policy Gets Mixed Response at Japan Graduations
The majority of the 279 graduating students at Maebashi Commercial High School marched into the gymn...
March 2, 2023
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71-Year-Old Arrested Over Fatal Car Crash Outside Osaka Hospital
OSAKA — A 71-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of striking and killing two elderly...
March 2, 2023
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Sauries Set Out to Dry in Miyagi Pref. Town
A worker hangs sauries out to dry in the town of Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, which is known for la...
March 2, 2023
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First Winds Signaling Approach of Spring Sweep Across Kanto Region
The first strong southern winds that signal the approach of spring swept over the Kanto region on We...
March 2, 2023
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Child-Rearing Supports Flailing with Record-Low Births
Fewer than 800,000 births were recorded in Japan in 2022 for the first time since the government be...
March 2, 2023
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