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Japan Parties Gear Up for Election in 1st Weekend since Dissolution

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NIPPON
 
Japanese political parties began gearing up in earnest for the upcoming House of Representatives election on Saturday, the first weekend since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved the lower chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, the day before.
Takayuki Kobayashi, policy chief...

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Japan Gov't Compiles Foreigner Policy Plans Ahead Of Snap Election

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KYODO NEWS
 
The government on Friday compiled a policy package to toughen rules for foreigners in Japan and promote social cohesion, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to show commitment to the issue before a snap election on Feb. 8.
Billed as measures to promote "well-ordered and harmonious ...

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Japan Begins Survey Over Nationality Of Public Housing Residents

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The land ministry said Friday that it has been looking into whether local governments nationwide are aware of the nationalities of residents living in public housing.
The ministry will compile the survey results as early as February. It will issue a notice to municipalities within f...

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Japan to Raise Basic Pension Benefits by 1.9 Pct in FY 2026

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NIPPON
 
The Japanese government will raise basic public pension benefits by 1.9 pct in fiscal 2026 from the previous year, the welfare ministry said Friday.
Benefits under the "kosei nenkin" public pension program for corporate employees, paid on top of basic benefits, will be increased by 2 pct...

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Takaichi Dissolves Diet After Only 3 Months In Office, Setting Up Snap Election

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved the lower house of the Diet on Friday, paving the way for a Feb 8 snap election.
The move is an attempt to capitalize on her popularity to help governing party regain ground after major losses in recent years, but will delay parliamentary appr...

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Japan Restarts World's Largest Nuclear Plant As Fukushima Memories Loom Large

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BBC
 
Japan has restarted operations at the world's largest nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster forced the country to shut all of its reactors.
The decision to restart reactor number 6 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa north-west of Tokyo was taken despite local residents...

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36th Annual International Snowball Fight Competition to be held in Uonuma in February

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Since the dawn of humanity, whenever we have been blessed with lightly frozen flakes of precipitation, we have been filled with the urge to gather up this natural wonder into our hands, and then throw it at friends and family, laughing extra hard if we had hit them in the butt.
It’s...

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Japan Stops Short of Committing to Trump-Proposed Peace Board

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NIPPON
 
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on Wednesday declined to clarify whether Japan will participate in the Board of Peace proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump for the Gaza Strip.
"We are examining the details" of the board, the top government spokesman said at a news confer...

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Life Sentence For Man Who Killed Japan's Ex-PM Shinzo Abe

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BBC
 
The man who killed Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been sentenced to life in prison, three and a half years after he shot him dead at a rally in the city of Nara in 2022.
Tetsuya Yamagami had pleaded guilty to murder charges at the trial's opening last year, but how he should b...

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Chatgpt Gets Full Marks In 9 Japan Unified Univ. Entrance Exam Subjects

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KYODO NEWS
 
The artificial intelligence ChatGPT earned perfect scores in nine subjects in this year's unified university entrance examinations, marking its first full score, an AI venture said Tuesday.
When LifePrompt Inc. tested the generative AI chatbot for the weekend's university exams, the ...

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