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2025 Expo Osaka : Prefectures around Kansai Hope to Lure Tourists with Local Charms; Kansai Pavilion Provides Chance to Promote Regional Areas
OSAKA — Local governments are taking advantage of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo’s popularity by proa...
May 23, 2025
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2025 Expo Osaka: Japan Pavilion Security Guard Headset Goes Viral on Social Media; Fans Delight at Similarity to Dragon Ball “Scouter”
OSAKA — Security guards for dignitaries at the Osaka-Kansai Expo’s Japan Pavilion are going viral...
May 22, 2025
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Rainy Season Begins in Okinawa Pref. around Thursday, Japan Meteorological Agency Says
Rainy season officially began in Okinawa Prefecture around Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Age...
May 22, 2025
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2025 Expo Osaka: Yoshimura Asks Japan Expo Association to Consider Keeping Restaurants, Shops Open until Just before 10 P.M.
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura has asked the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition to co...
May 22, 2025
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Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun Joins CAI to Combat Fake Information Online; Members of Intl Group Include Media, Camera Makers, Tech Firms
The Yomiuri Shimbun has joined the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), an international organi...
May 22, 2025
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Tokyo Households to Not Pay Basic Water Rate This Summer; Plan Aimed to Ease Financial Burden, Prevent Heatstroke at Home
All of the about 8 million general households in Tokyo will not have to pay the basic water rate ...
May 21, 2025
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Yamanashi Pref. Mulls Whether to Charge for Cost of Mt. Fuji Helicopter Rescues
KOFU — As more climbers have become stranded on Mt. Fuji when the mountain is closed to the publi...
May 21, 2025
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Only 7% of Auctioned Rice Reaches Japan Consumers; Distributors Blame Delays on Transportation, Processing
Only about 7% of the government’s stockpiled rice that was auctioned off in March had been made a...
May 21, 2025
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Skyrocketing Rice Prices to Cause Sake Rice Prices to Rise as Increasing Growers Shift to Table Rice Production
TOYAMA — The skyrocketing prices of rice as a staple food is also impacting sake production.
...May 21, 2025
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Former Army Pilot Hopes for World Without War; ‘War Produces Nothing But Victims’
During the Pacific War, Reiji Kitajima was sent to Manila and other battlefronts in the south as ...
May 21, 2025
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This Summer Forecast to Be Not as Hot as Last Year, But Average Temps Expected to Be Higher Than Normal
Average temperatures for June-August are expected to be higher than normal nationwide, although n...
May 21, 2025
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Tokyo Experiences Temperatures Exceeding 30 C for 1st Time This Year; Other Parts of Japan also See Soaring Temperatures
Tokyo experienced its first day of the year with temperatures rising above 30 C on Tuesday.
...May 20, 2025
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Medical Institutions Increasingly Handling Foreign Patients; Areas Responding to Increase in Overseas Visitors, Residents
With the increase in the number of foreign visitors and residents in Japan, a growing number of m...
May 20, 2025
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Man Falls to Death from Osaka Building, Killing Cyclist Below; May Have Plunged to Death Based on Past Behavior
OSAKA — A 70-year-old man is believed to have fallen from a building, fatally colliding with a ma...
May 20, 2025
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4 Injured at Sapporo Restaurant; Passersby Call 119, Report ‘Sound of Explosion’
SAPPORO — Several calls were made to emergency services reporting the sound of an explosion at a ...
May 19, 2025
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