SORA NEWS
 
Touching outpouring of support comes from across the country as owner calls for burglars to apologize, but not to him.
Earlier this month Kazunori Yamada showed up at Tsuribori Honpo, the indoor fishing pond he runs in Toki, Gifu Prefecture, only to find a heartbreaking scene waiting ...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
A single dolphin thought to have injured at least six people at beaches in Fukui prefecture, with one person requiring 14 stitches
Beachgoers in Japan are being urged to stay away from dolphins following a spate of attacks thought to involve a single animal that have left at least ...

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CNA
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sent an offering to a controversial Tokyo shrine for war dead visited by members of his Cabinet on Monday (Aug 15), the 77th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender, moves set to anger South Korea and China.
With the Yasukuni Shrine seen as a symb...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japanese industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday visited Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, regarded as a symbol of Japan's past militarism by its Asian neighbors.
The visit to the Shinto shrine, which honors convicted war criminals along with more than 2.4 million war dead, came ah...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping decided himself to let ballistic missiles launched by the military during recent large-scale drills near Taiwan fall in Japan's exclusive economic zone to deter Tokyo's interference in any cross-strait contingency, according to sources close to the matter...

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KYODO
 
Japan's daily coronavirus tally soared to a record 250,403 cases on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's new Cabinet faces the challenge of tackling the seventh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic amid renewed concerns over a strain on the medical system.
"We will move into a new phase ...

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NHK
 
Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has shaken up his Cabinet. He says his new lineup will address challenges at home and abroad.
He said, "I have established an experienced and capable LDP-Komeito coalition government that has the ability to overcome what is said to be the most difficult ...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan's population declined to 125.93 million as of Jan 1, down by 726,342 in its biggest drop since comparable data became available in 2013, as deaths again outnumbered births and COVID-19 border restrictions kept foreign resident numbers low, government data showed Tuesday.
The p...

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KYODO NEWS
 
A new COVID-19 vaccine considered effective against the Omicron variant will be available in Japan to all people who have completed at least two coronavirus inoculations from as early as mid-October, the government said Monday.
The bivalent vaccine, so named for its combination of in...

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CNA
 
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will reshuffle his Cabinet on Wednesday (Aug 10) paying attention to politicians' ties with the Unification Church, seeking to distance his administration from the controversial group and reverse a slump in opinion polls.
The reshuffle comes as Kishid...

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