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Japan's Child Population Down For 45th Straight Year

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The estimated population of children under 15 stood at 13.29 million in Japan as of April 1, down for the 45th straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Monday.
The child population, down 350,000 from a year earlier, again fell to the lowest level since 1950, when data compa...

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Japan, Australia Affirm Closer Cooperation In Securing Minerals, Energy

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KYODO NEWS
 
The leaders of Japan and Australia agreed Monday to step up their collaboration to ensure stable supplies of critical minerals, energy and other essentials, amid China's rare earth dominance and the conflict in the Middle East.
Issuing five outcome documents at their meeting in Canbe...

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Indonesia, Japan Hold Follow-Up Defense Ministers' Meeting

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ANTARA NEWS
 
Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin and Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrived in Jakarta on Monday for a follow-up defense ministers’ meeting.
The meeting follows their previous talks held in Bali on Sunday, May 3.
Observations at Halim Perdanakusuma Air For...

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Japan Tells Iran Of Strong Hope For Peace Deal With U.S.

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has told his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, that Japan strongly hopes that Iran and the United States will soon resume talks and reach a final deal to end their conflict.
Motegi spoke with Araghchi by telephone during his visit to Kenya on Sa...

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Middle East Conflict Dampens Japan Industrial Output In March

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's industrial output in March edged down 0.5 percent from the previous month, pressured by the Middle East conflict that affected output of chemical products due to disruptions in imports of their raw materials, government data showed Thursday.
The decrease followed an upwardly ...

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Dragon Diplomacy: Indonesia Lends Komodo Lizard Pair To Japan Zoo

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CNA
 
Animal rights group PETA has expressed concern that any dragon offspring born in Japan will be "condemned to a lifetime of confinement".
Indonesia will lend a breeding pair of endangered Komodo dragons to Japan under an agreement signed on Wednesday (Apr 29) between zoos from the two countr...

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Japan PM Vows All-Out Efforts Toward Sustained Pay Hikes At May Day Event

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KYODO NEWS
 
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Wednesday her government will do its utmost to help ensure continued wage hikes as the head of the country's umbrella group for labor unions underscored the need for increased pay amid inflation.
Takaichi attended a May Day gathering in Tokyo's Shib...

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Japan Seeks to Play Active Role at NPT Review Meeting

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NIPPON
 
Japan will seek to play an active role in finding common ground between nuclear and nonnuclear states at a review conference for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which opened Monday, Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ayano Kunimitsu said Tuesday.
Kunimitsu, who took part in...

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Japan Airlines Trials Humanoid Robots As Ground Handlers

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BBC
 
Japan Airlines (JAL) will start using humanoid robots in ground handling tasks at Tokyo's Haneda airport from May, in a two-year trial it said is aimed at easing employees' workload.
For a start, the Chinese-made robots will be deployed to load and unload cargo containers, JAL and GMO AI & ...

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Japan Panel Calls for Boost in Long-Term Public Works Investment

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NIPPON
 
Private-sector members of a key Japanese government panel have called for a review of an indicator used to assess the appropriateness of public works projects in order to encourage long-term infrastructure investment by local governments and other entities.
“We need to build a strong reg...

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