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Catch certificates eyed to stamp out eel poaching
The Fisheries Agency plans to include glass eel in a certification system from December 2025 as part...
November 27, 2021
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Sapporo blanketed in white
People cautiously cross a street in Sapporo on Saturday morning, when the city had its first accumul...
November 27, 2021
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New cancer patients in Japan decrease for 1st time in 2020
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The National Cancer Center said Friday that the number of people in Japan newly...
November 26, 2021
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Edo Kakudako kite maker prepares for new year in Japan
A kite maker in Chosei, Chiba Prefecture, is putting the finishing touches on an Edo Kakudako kite, ...
November 26, 2021
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A-bomb survivor uses ventriloquism to give voice to wartime experiences
YACHIYO, Chiba — A woman who survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima is using her talent for ventri...
November 25, 2021
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Pumice found 2,000 km away in Philippines
HANOI — Pumice and ash believed to be from a Japanese underwater volcano have been found over 2,000 ...
November 25, 2021
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Horie plans repeat of solo sailing adventure, in opposite direction
Sixty years after earning fame with a nonstop transpacific solo voyage from Japan to San Francisco, ...
November 25, 2021
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It’s Sho-time for annual hina doll display
Baseball star Shohei Ohtani and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Syukuro Manabe were among the notable’...
November 25, 2021
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LED helium lanterns carry bright wishes into a dark sky
About 100 helium-filled lanterns on strings, lit from within by LEDs and carrying written wishes suc...
November 25, 2021
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Japanese ballet legend Maki lives on in students, company
Asami Maki, the light of the Japanese ballet world, died on Oct. 20 at the age of 87. Maki apparentl...
November 25, 2021
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Monorail offers mobile vantage point on Tokyo at night
Passengers take pictures of the Rainbow Bridge in Tokyo from inside a Tokyo Monorail train on Tuesda...
November 25, 2021
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A golden curtain
A man hangs up persimmons Tuesday at the Inaka Michi no Eki Yashimaya store in Marumori, Miyagi Pref...
November 24, 2021
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Salvaged WWII-era airplane returns to Tokyo
A World War II trainer aircraft, the only remaining plane of its kind, was returned to Tachikawa, To...
November 24, 2021
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New Year’s meal prep
Employees of the Ihara Suisan seafood processing company in Rumoi, Hokkaido, sort pieces of salted h...
November 24, 2021
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Setting the light
The setting sun reflects on the Ariake Sea at Miike Port in Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, creating a pi...
November 23, 2021
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