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Growing private-sector efforts provide assistance to Ukraine
Efforts to provide support to Ukraine amid the conflict that has continued since Russia’s invasion h...
March 25, 2022
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Shop elevates excrement theme from filthy to funny
YOKOHAMA — There is a variety goods store in Yokohama that specializes in items inspired by a subjec...
March 24, 2022
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Figurines depicting promising figures displayed ahead of Boys’ Festival
A doll depicting Tsuyoshi Shinjo, the new manager of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and whose nick...
March 24, 2022
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Nursing care workers’ monthly wage up by 7,780 yen in Japan
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The average monthly wage of people working at nursing care facilities in Japan ...
March 24, 2022
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Water still cut off in Fukushima one week after quake
Water was still cut off in some areas of Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday, one week after an earthq...
March 24, 2022
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Ex univ prof becomes first totally blind person to pass Grade 1 of the Kyoto Kentei test
KYOTO — A former university professor has become the first totally blind person to pass Grade 1 of t...
March 24, 2022
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Monument bearing A-bomb survivor’s words put on hold
The unveiling of a monument bearing the words of a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing has ...
March 23, 2022
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Cold snap, inactive power plants trigger surge in energy demand, supply shortfall
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized in his online address to the Diet on Wednesday t...
March 23, 2022
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Twin panda cubs at Ueno Zoo to go back on display Friday
The public will see heavier, more agile twin giant panda cubs when they are put back on display at T...
March 23, 2022
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Tohoku Shinkansen service partially restored
Operation of the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train resumed Tuesday in parts of a section that was suspe...
March 22, 2022
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TEPCO asks for supply from 7 firms; power consumption rate exceeds 100%
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. announced Tuesday that its power supply would be supplem...
March 22, 2022
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Digitally produced ‘yosegaki’ group message cards growing popular amid pandemic
A staple of farewell parties in Japan is a collection of written messages called yosegaki, which fri...
March 21, 2022
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Suspended Tohoku Shinkansen section to partly reopen Tuesday
The operation of the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train will resume Tuesday in parts of a section suspen...
March 21, 2022
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Netflix’s Japan subsidiary fined for ¥1.2 bil. tax loophole scheme through 2019
U.S. streaming giant Netflix, Inc.’s subsidiary in Japan was found to have used tax loopholes to red...
March 21, 2022
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People fix quake-toppled tombstones following March 16 temblor in Japan
A man on Sunday puts back in place a tombstone at a cemetery in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, after it wa...
March 21, 2022
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