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Acquittal Upheld For Ex-TEPCO Execs Over Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

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JAPAN TODAY
 
An appeals court on Wednesday upheld an acquittal of three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc who were accused of failing to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
The Tokyo High Court decision followed a T...

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Japan, India Begin 1st-Ever Joint Fighter Drill Near Tokyo

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan and India on Monday began their first-ever joint fighter jet drill near Tokyo, the Japanese Defense Ministry said, in their latest effort to bolster defense ties as they face China's growing military power in the Indo-Pacific region.
Four F-2 and four F-15 fighters from Japan's...

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More Indonesians In Japan's Foreign Trainee Program Amid Weak Yen

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NIPPON
 
The number of Indonesian technical trainees in Japan is rising as the recent slide of the yen against the U.S. dollar and other currencies has discouraged trainees from some other countries to come to Japan.
The demographic shift in Japan's foreign technical trainee program has also come...

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United States And Japan Sign Space Cooperation Framework Agreement

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SPACE NEWS
 
The United States and Japan signed an agreement Jan. 13 to enable further cooperation between the two countries in space exploration, but without announcing any new initiatives.
During a brief ceremony at NASA Headquarters attended by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other o...

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Japan University Exams Begin With Stricter Rules To Prevent Cheating

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japan’s unified nationwide university entrance exams started Saturday, as organizers implemented stricter rules to prevent cheating after a photographed image of a question was leaked during the test last year.
Organizers have also implemented coronavirus measures, such as requestin...

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Japan Mulls Lifting Anti-COVID Recommendation To Wear Masks Indoors

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KYODO NEWS
 
 
The Japanese government is considering no longer asking the public to wear masks indoors in principle unless they have symptoms, a government source said Saturday, possibly changing the public's daily anti-coronavirus practice drastically.
The policy change has been floated as the ...

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Medvedev Says Japanese PM Should Disembowel Himself

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REUTERS
 
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself.
It was the latest in a long line of shocking and provocative statements from Medvedev, wh...

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Japan: Passenger Plane Turns Back To Airport After Cockpit Window Crack Found Mid-Air

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SKY NEWS
 
All Nippon Airways Flight 1182 was headed to Toyama before it was forced to return to the Sapporo-New Chitose airport.
A passenger plane has returned to its departure airport in Japan after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft mid-air.
All Nippon Airwa...

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Japanese Divers Shoot Rare Video Of A Giant Squid Swimming Along Coast

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NHK
 
A couple diving near the Sea of Japan coast have captured rare images of a giant squid.
Tanaka Yosuke and his wife Miki spotted the creature on the water surface near the Nekozaki Peninsula in the city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan last Friday evening.
The couple are scuba-...

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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Japan To Release Radioactive Water Into Sea This Year

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BBC
 
 
Japan says it will release more than a million tonnes of water into the sea from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant this year.
After treatment the levels of most radioactive particles meet the national standard, the operator said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sa...

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