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- Game Over For Classic Mini Famicom And Super Famicom As Nintendo Announces End Of Repairs (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
Video games are a cyclical hobby. When Nintendo released the Famicom/NES, it was the hottest hardware with the best lineup of games the industry had ever seen. After enough time passe...
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- Japan To Face Price Hikes On 2,900 Food Items In October, Most In 2024 (仕事)
- KYODO NEWS
Japanese consumers face price hikes in October on around 2,900 food and drink items, the most for a month so far this year, mainly due to a continued increase in raw material costs, a ...
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- Edamame Fans Unite! Zunda-Flavored Meiji Super Cup Ice Cream Is Here (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
One of my greatest joys while teaching is informing my American students that I love sweetened, mashed edamame paste. The looks on their faces are priceless as they try to wrap their ...
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- Japan's Next PM Ishiba Aims To Call Oct 27 Snap Election (ニュース)
- CNA
Japan's incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday (Sep 30) he intended to call a snap election for Oct 27, after being voted leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) l...
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- Japan’s Super-Cheap Corn Snacks Maker Apologizes For 2nd-Ever Price Increase In 45 Years (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
Part of the appeal of Japan’s mega-popular Umaibo corn puff snacks is how manufacturer Yaokin is constantly adding new flavors to the lineup, like Teriyaki Hamburger or Cup Noodle.
Bu...
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- SoftBank Group Firms Pay Salaries through PayPay (仕事)
- JAPAN NEWS
Telecommunications and investment company SoftBank Group Corp. and nine affiliated firms paid digital salaries to their employees on Wednesday, the first such initiative in Japan.
Empl...
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- Tokyo Government’s AI-Powered Dating App, Tokyo Enmusubi, Officially Launched (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
In a 2021 online survey conducted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 67 percent of the surveyed 3,267 residents of Tokyo hope to get married someday. However, among those, 69.3 per...
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- Defense Minister Orders ASDF Aircraft to Be Readied for Transporting Japanese Nationals from Lebanon (ニュース)
- JAPAN NEWS
Defense Minister Minoru Kihara has ordered Air Self-Defense Force aircraft to be moved to Jordan and Greece to stand by for the transportation of Japanese nationals from Lebanon, the m...
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- Japan's Scandal-Hit Ruling Party Picks Next PM (ニュース)
- BBC
Japan’s scandal-hit ruling party has elected Shigeru Ishiba as its new leader, positioning the former defence chief as Japan's next leader.
Ishiba, 67, said he would clean up his Liberal Demo...
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- Citigroup Names Structuring Veteran Kishie as Japan Markets Head (仕事)
- BNN BLOOMBERG
Citigroup Inc. appointed Tokiya Kishie as head of its markets business in Japan, tapping the structured products veteran to fill the key role as trading soars in the Asian economy. ...
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- Japan Launched A Rocket To Monitor N Korean Military Facilities (ニュース)
- NEWS AZ
Japan launched a rocket with a reconnaissance satellite to monitor North Korea, News.Az reports citing the Yomiuri newspaper .
"The satellite for collecting intelligence is a de facto r...
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- World's longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan (ニュース)
- BBC
An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated.
Iwao Hakamada, who...
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- Japan Defense Force Ship Sails Through Taiwan Strait For 1st Time (ニュース)
- KYODO NEWS
A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel has sailed through the Taiwan Strait for the first time at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's direction, sources familiar with the matter said Th...
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- Princess Zelda Takes The Lead In 'Echoes Of Wisdom' (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Princess Zelda will shed her role as damsel in distress to play the heroine for the first time in the nearly four-decade history of the Nintendo fantasy series named after her.
"The L...
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- Japan’s LDP Presidential Race Looks Certain to Go to Runoff; Diet Members Surveyed in Election’s Last Stretch (ニュース)
- JAPAN NEWS
The Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election is almost certain to go to a runoff, as former LDP Secretary General Shigeru Ishiba, economic security minister Sanae Takaichi and ...
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