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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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Salvage operation planned to raise Kazu I
SHARI, Hokkaido — The transport ministry and the Japan Coast Guard are working out the final detail...
May 20, 2022
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Tokyo on high alert ahead of Quad meeting
Central Tokyo has been placed on high alert ahead of Tuesday’s Quad summit meeting, with about 18,0...
May 20, 2022
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Japan treads carefully on accepting foreign tourists
As part of its preparations to open Japan’s borders to tourist groups as early as in June, the gover...
May 20, 2022
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Saturation divers begin Kazu I search operation
SHARI, Hokkaido — The search for 12 people who remain missing after the Kazu I sightseeing boat sank...
May 19, 2022
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North Korean IT engineer modified disaster mitigation app for Hyogo Pref.
A China-based North Korean software engineer, who is suspected of having posed as a South Korean man...
May 19, 2022
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