JAPAN TODAY
 
The Japanese are often said to be well-regarded for their etiquette and social graces.
But if this is especially true for those working in Japan's service industry, the same cannot always be said of their customers.
Famously once referred to as "gods" by the firms that serve them, s...

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KYODO NEWS
 
When police searched a group of abandoned motels in a city some 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo earlier this year, they found more than 20 Vietnamese men and women living together in a community that included a restaurant and a karaoke bar.
"There is a possibility that these were pe...

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KYODO NEWS
 
China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, and Takeo Akiba, Japan's chief national security adviser, held marathon talks in Beijing on Monday and agreed to maintain dialogue at various levels, including between their leaders and foreign ministers, Akiba told reporters.
Their meeting was intended...

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NIPPON
 
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, on Monday successfully launched the fourth of its H3 rocket carrying an X-band defense communication satellite.
The Kirameki-3 geostationary satellite was put into orbit after the rocket lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshim...

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As it bids to become the world's most competitive and popular volleyball league by 2030, Japan's rebranded SV.League is gradually lifting foreign player quotas originally intended to nurture local talent, but which its leadership now considers counterproductive in the long term.
It h...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
A 42-year-old man believed to be a student from Taiwan has been arrested in Tokyo for allegedly assaulting Japanese celebrity Haruna Kojima, the Metropolitan Police Department said Tuesday.
The man is suspected of hugging and pushing Kojima, a former member of pop group AKB48, onto ...

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NIPPON
 
The number of people who were sent to a hospital over heatstroke in Japan from May to September came in at 97,578, the highest level for the five-month period since 2008 when the statistics began, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.
The figure jumped by 6,111 from the s...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Recent events have shaken global energy markets and affected Japan, which relies on imports for most of its fuel. This is the third and final installment of a series examining potential challenges for the nation’s electric power industry.
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Despite a desperate need for data centers...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The Japanese government expressed concerns over Israel's attack on military facilities in Iran on Saturday and called for all parties concerned to exercise "maximum restraint" amid fears of an all-out regional war.
Touching on Israel's strikes on military targets in Iran as a retali...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's main opposition party said strong results in the general election Sunday have made a change of government an achievable target, as smaller parties surged and the ruling coalition failed to maintain its majority in the House of Representatives.
Yoshihiko Noda, the head of the ...

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