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- Quasi-Permanent UNSC Seat Needed for Japan: Ex-Official (ニュース)
- NIPPON
Japan should encourage the United Nations to establish quasi-permanent Security Council membership and pursue the position, former senior U.N. official Kiyotaka Akasaka has said.
"Quasi-pe...
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- Japan Allows Over-The-Counter 'Morning After' Pill For First Time (ニュース)
- BBC
Japan has for the first time approved over-the-counter sales of an emergency contraceptive pill, its manufacturer says, allowing women in the country to take the medication without prescripti...
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- Tokyo Losing Another Iconic Arcade With Announced Closure Of 40-Year-Old Ikebukuro Game Center (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
Japan is one of the last bastions of video game arcade culture, but these are tumultuous times for the industry. It’s not just little local arcades that have been closing their doors,...
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- Malware Attack On Japan Office Supplier Askul Halts Services Of Other Firms (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Retailers that commission their delivery operations to a subsidiary of online stationery retailer Askul Corp said Monday they have halted services of their online stores following a r...
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- Ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi On Track To Become Japan’s First Female Prime Minister (ニュース)
- AP NEWS
Japan’s governing party leader, Sanae Takaichi, is on track to become the country’s first female prime minister, after finding a badly needed replacement for a crucial partner that left h...
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- Japan's Empress Emerita Michiko Turns 91 (ニュース)
- NIPPON
Japanese Empress Emerita Michiko, wife of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and mother of Emperor Naruhito, marked her 91st birthday on Monday.
The Empress Emerita broke her right thigh bone in O...
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- Average Price Of Rice In Japan Falls For Fourth Straight Week (仕事)
- JAPAN TIMES
The average price of rice sold at some 1,000 supermarkets across Japan in the week through Sunday dropped ¥63 from the previous week to ¥4,142 per 5 kilograms, the agriculture ministr...
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- Influenza Cases In Japan Surge 50% Week On Week (ニュース)
- NHK
Health authorities in Japan are urging people to take precautions against influenza. They say cases nationwide have surged by about 50 percent in the space of a week.
The Japan Institute for ...
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- Japan to Conduct Survey on Online Hate Speech (ニュース)
- NIPPON
The Japanese Justice Ministry is considering conducting the first nationwide survey on online hate speech against foreign visitors and residents in fiscal 2026.
As discriminatory posts aga...
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- Japan To Improve Bear Population Control Steps Amid Death Spike (ニュース)
- VOI.ID
Japanese authorities will take stricter steps to control their bear population, Japan's Environment Minister said Friday, after a recent record of death from a bear attack.
Japan set bears...
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- Honda Announces 4 Motorcycle Models Including ‘Super Cub’ Compliant with New Moped License Regulation (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
Honda Motor Co. announced Thursday that it will sequentially release four new motorcycle models starting in November, including the new 110cc displacement Super Cub series motorcycle...
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- Household Disaster Supplies in Japan Found Inadequate (仕事)
- NIPPON
Many Japanese households remain underprepared for disasters, with emergency toilets in short supply particularly, a survey released by the Cabinet Office on Friday showed.
In the survey, r...
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- Princess Aiko to visit Laos from Nov. 17 (ニュース)
- JAPAN TIMES
Princess Aiko is scheduled to make an official six-day visit to Laos starting on Nov. 17, according to a plan approved by the government at a Cabinet meeting on Friday.
Marking the 70...
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- Japan PM Hopeful Avoids War Shrine Visit (ニュース)
- HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
The new head of Japan's ruling party Sanae Takaichi sent an offering but avoided visiting a controversial war shrine on Oct. 17, as the prospects of her becoming prime ministe...
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- Former PM Tomiichi Murayama Dies At Age 101 (ニュース)
- JAPAN TIMES
Former Japan Socialist Party Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who led a coalition government with longtime rival the Liberal Democratic Party in the mid-1990s and delivered a key sta...
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