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- Japan's Olympic Pairs Skating Champions Announce Retirement (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Japan's Olympic figure skating pairs champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara announced their retirement on Friday, saying they were ending their careers with "no regrets".
Miura and K...
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- JAMSTEC to Run Japan's Next Antarctic Research Vessel (ニュース)
- NIPPON
The Japanese government plans to have the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC, own and operate the successor to the Antarctic research vessel Shirase, official...
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- Shunsuke Nakamura Joins Japan World Cup Team Coaching Staff, Shares Inspirations with Team (ニュース)
- JAPAN NEWS
Former Japan soccer star Shunsuke Nakamura, 47, will join the coaching staff for Japan’s World Cup team, the Japan Football Association announced Thursday.
The former Japan’s midfielde...
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- Japan’s Coffee Bean Production Looks to Northern Areas to Expand Amid Challenges From Climate Change (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
The production of domestic coffee beans is spreading nationwide, and there are moves to expand cultivation into colder areas in north of Japan, including Hokkaido and the Tohoku region...
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- Japan To Extend Subsidy Of Up To 60 Bil. Yen To Sony Unit For Sensor Output (仕事)
- KYODO NEWS
The Japanese government said Friday it will provide up to 60 billion yen ($376 million) in subsidies to a Sony Group Corp. unit to help mass-produce cutting-edge image sensors, aiming ...
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- Japan Targets 25% Share Of Global Autonomous Vehicle Market (仕事)
- JAPAN TIMES
The government on Thursday released a draft road map on public-private investment that features a goal of acquiring an about 25% share of the global market in self-driving vehicle s...
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- Japan Pledges $10bn To Help Asian Countries Deal With Oil Crisis (仕事)
- BBC
Japan has pledged to provide $10bn (£7.4bn) to help its Asian neighbours, especially those in South East Asia, secure energy including crude oil as the region reels from disruptions caused by...
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- Takaichi's Economic Ambitions Meet Interest-Rate Realities And Doubts About Debt (仕事)
- JAPAN TIMES
Japan's interest rates could soon exceed the economic growth rate, and this could, in theory, make it more difficult for the country to contain the national debt and for Prime Minis...
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- Kumamoto Marks Decade Since Deadly Quakes (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
The southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto on Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of a deadly earthquake, the more intensive of a pair of back-to-back quakes that hit the region and cla...
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- Japan-Linked Ship Crews Patiently Watch U.S.-Iran Talks (ニュース)
- NIPPON
The crews of Japan-linked ships stuck in the Persian Gulf are keeping a close eye on U.S.-Iran talks, a Japanese shipping-sector labor union official has said.
"Right now, there's no prosp...
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- Japan-NATO Cooperation Enters New ‘Concrete’ Phase, Tokyo’s Envoy To Alliance Says (ニュース)
- JAPAN TIMES
Japan’s relationship with NATO is moving beyond broad political dialogue into more “concrete” forms of cooperation across key strategic and security areas, Tokyo’s ambassador to the a...
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- Foreign Tourists Set New Record In March; 30% Drop In Visitors From Middle East (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in March was 3,618,900, a 3.5% increase from the same month last year and a new record for March, according to an estimate released by the Japan...
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- Indonesia, Japan Back Harapan Kita As Asia's Biggest Cardiac Hub (ニュース)
- ANTARA NEWS
The Ministry of Health and the Tokushukai Medical Group of Japan have designated the Harapan Kita Heart and Blood Vessel Hospital (RSJPD) in Jakarta as the largest hub for cardiovascu...
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- North Korea Calls Japan Diplomatic Paper A 'Grave Provocation' (ニュース)
- CNA
The countries do not have formal diplomatic relations, and Pyongyang frequently criticises Tokyo over its colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.
North Korea accused Japan of a "grave provocat...
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- Japanese Police Probe 11-Year-Old's Death As Possible Corpse Abandonment (ニュース)
- NHK
Police in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, have launched an investigation into the suspected abandonment of a corpse after the body of an 11-year-old boy was found in a forest.
Elementary sch...
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