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- Over 80 Nursing Homes In Japan Went Bankrupt In First Half (ニュース)
- JAPAN TIMES
A severe labor shortage and rising prices are weighing heavily on Japan's nursing care providers, with 81 nursing homes going bankrupt over the past six months, a Tokyo-based research...
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- Japan Declares Victory In Effort To End Government Use Of Floppy Disks (ニュース)
- CNA
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucr...
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- Japan Land Price Rises Over 2% For 1st Time Amid Post-COVID Recovery (仕事)
- KYODO NEWS
The average land price in Japan rose 2.3 percent in 2024 from a year earlier, government data showed Monday, surpassing 2 percent for the first time and marking the highest annual rate...
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- Japan’s First New Banknotes In 20 Years Use Holograms To Defeat Counterfeits (仕事)
- BUSINESS TIMES
JAPAN began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an...
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- Japan Top Court Says Forced Sterilisation Unconstitutional (ニュース)
- BBC
Japan's top court has ruled as unconstitutional a defunct eugenics law which saw 16,500 disabled people forcibly sterilised between the 1950s and 1990s.
The Supreme Court also ordered the gov...
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- Woman Arrested For Letting Newborn Baby Die At Home Says She Was Pessimistic About Future (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
A 22-year-old unemployed woman who was arrested last month on suspicion of abandoning the body of her newborn baby daughter at her home in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, has said sh...
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- Nikkei Ends Above 40,000 As Yen Falls To New 37-Year Low Against Dollar (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
The Nikkei stock index closed above the 40,000 threshold for the first time in three months, as exporters were boosted by the weaker yen hitting a fresh 37-year low in the upper 161 r...
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- EU-Japan Data Deal Kicks In (ニュース)
- RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL NEWS
Free flows of data are part of broader initiative to boost innovation and technology ties
Data can now flow freely between organisations in the EU and Japan, under a de...
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- Japan's Skateboarding Youth Turn Street Culture Into Olympic Gold (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Japan used to think skateboarding was a pastime for delinquents but the country has grown into a global powerhouse in the sport and is expected to dominate at this month's Paris Olymp...
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- ‘First’ Church In Japan Celebrates 150th Anniversary (ニュース)
- VATICAN NEWS
Tsukiji Church, a cornerstone of Catholic heritage in Tokyo, celebrated its 150th anniversary with a Thanksgiving Mass on June 30, presided over by Archbishop Isao Kikuchi.
Known a...
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- Tabelog Launches Online Reservation Service For Visitors To Japan (仕事)
- JAPAN TODAY
Tabelog, one of Japan’s largest restaurant search and reservation sites, has launched an online reservation service for visitors to Japan, which supports English, Chinese (Simplified ...
Tourism [June 29, 2024] More
- Deaths Linked to Japanese Supplement Suddenly Rise to 80 (ニュース)
- NEW YORK TIMES
The case, involving a supplement intended to reduce cholesterol, has put attention on how companies are allowed to self-report claims about their products.
A Japanese pharmaceutica...
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- Ex-Defense Minister Ishiba Mulls Running In LDP Leadership Race (ニュース)
- JAPAN TODAY
Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is preparing to run in the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in September, with an eye to becoming Japan's next prime...
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- Japan Renounces Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (ニュース)
- ARAB NEWS
The Japanese government has said that it has no intention to develop lethal autonomous weapons systems and that such weapons should not be approved internationally.
Japan plans to play ...
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- Deportations Over Immigration Violations In Japan Up 65% In 2023 (ニュース)
- JAPAN TIMES
The number of immigration law violators who were deported rose by over 65% in 2023, the year after Japan lifted COVID-19 border restrictions, Immigration Services Agency data showed F...
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