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Mobile Supermarkets Attracting Urban Residents amid Pandemic in Japan
Mobile supermarkets, which are lightweight trucks loaded with various items, have been attracting mo...
February 25, 2021
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Heroic doctor works to preserve lessons from Tohoku disaster
SENDAI — Takeshi Kanno, a 41-year-old gastroenterologist at the Tohoku University Hospital in Sendai...
February 24, 2021
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Expert Predicts Japan’s Number of Births will Fall below 800,000 in 2021
There is growing concern that the coronavirus pandemic will accelerate the decline in Japan’s birthr...
February 23, 2021
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Police Canine Goes from Doghouse to Hero
KOBE — A male police dog that once abandoned its responsibility, has finally had its day. The hero ...
February 20, 2021
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10 Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Child of Hope Will Soon Turn 10
FUKUSHIMA — Ten years will soon have passed since the massive tsunami and the accident at a nuclear ...
February 20, 2021
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Panel: Japan quake caused no large tsunami because of deep seismic center
There were no large tsunami as a result of the quake that struck off Fukushima Prefecture late Satur...
February 16, 2021
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Nara shop collects used randoseru backpacks for those in need
NARA — A shop in Nara is collecting old randoseru backpacks used by elementary school children for d...
February 16, 2021
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Junior high school student invents lifesaving lattice after Kyoto Animation tragedy
Taking a lesson from the Kyoto Animation arson attack in July 2019, in which 36 people were killed, ...
February 15, 2021
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Japan universities neglect background checks on foreign students, researchers
About 40% of private universities nationwide failed to conduct background checks on foreign students...
February 15, 2021
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In These Fukushima Schools, Time Stopped after 2011 Disaster
FUKUSHIMA — In a difficult-to-return area of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, where the Fukushima No. 1 ...
February 13, 2021
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Kumamoto: Castle Regains Pre-disaster Appearance in Show of Recovery from Earthquake
KUMAMOTO — The towers of Kumamoto Castle have been restored to their majestic pre-disaster appearanc...
February 12, 2021
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Kenzaburo Oe Entrusts Manuscripts with University of Tokyo
Novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe, 86, has entrusted more than 10,000 pages of his manu...
February 12, 2021
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Want to Quantify the Feeling of Shame? What’s the ‘Logic’?
Surely everyone knows what it’s like to feel shame — that acute warm flush that tingles under the sk...
February 11, 2021
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Prospects are Bleak for Reconstruction of Hokkaido City
The bankruptcy of a ski resort operator in Hokkaido’s Yubari, the only local municipality in Japan u...
February 9, 2021
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Police to Get Ability to Immediately Examine Suspicious Drones
The government plans to create a new system that would allow authorities who spot drones in the sky ...
February 7, 2021
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