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Trump Makes Japan An Offer It Can’t Refuse
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NEW REPUBLIC
The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.
NATO has faced plenty of existential scares in the era of President Donald Trump, but now the United States’ long-standing allies in East Asia hav...
The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.
NATO has faced plenty of existential scares in the era of President Donald Trump, but now the United States’ long-standing allies in East Asia hav...
- November 19, 2019
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Gov't Says It Is Safe To Release Contaminated Fukushima Water Into Ocean
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - Japan's industry ministry said Monday it would be safe to release water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean, stressing that the health risk to humans would be "significantly small."
Discharging the water into the Pacific Ocean over the course of a y...
TOKYO - Japan's industry ministry said Monday it would be safe to release water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean, stressing that the health risk to humans would be "significantly small."
Discharging the water into the Pacific Ocean over the course of a y...
- November 18, 2019
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Japanese Actress Erika Sawajiri Arrested For Suspected Drug Possession
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STRAITS TIMES
TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japanese actress Erika Sawajiri, famous for her role in 2005 drama 1 Litre Of Tears, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs, NHK reported on Saturday (Nov 16) citing unnamed sources.
The 33-year-old actress, who this year starred in a TV adaption of T...
TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japanese actress Erika Sawajiri, famous for her role in 2005 drama 1 Litre Of Tears, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs, NHK reported on Saturday (Nov 16) citing unnamed sources.
The 33-year-old actress, who this year starred in a TV adaption of T...
- November 17, 2019
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Former Japanese Princess Gives Birth To Boy
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JAPAN TIMES
Ayako Moriya, the third daughter of the late Prince Takamado and now a commoner, has given birth to a boy, her first child, the Imperial Household Agency said Sunday.
She gave birth at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo at around 7 a.m. Sunday, and both the mother and the child are in good con...
Ayako Moriya, the third daughter of the late Prince Takamado and now a commoner, has given birth to a boy, her first child, the Imperial Household Agency said Sunday.
She gave birth at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo at around 7 a.m. Sunday, and both the mother and the child are in good con...
- November 17, 2019
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In Japan’s Vanishing Rural Towns, Newcomers Are Wanted
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CITY LAB
On a recent afternoon in the rural Japanese town of Kanna-machi, all seemed well. Children splashed in the town’s namesake river; their parents relaxed nearby at a bankside summer beer garden. A gaggle of laughing teenagers in muddy uniforms strolled home along the town’s main road aft...
On a recent afternoon in the rural Japanese town of Kanna-machi, all seemed well. Children splashed in the town’s namesake river; their parents relaxed nearby at a bankside summer beer garden. A gaggle of laughing teenagers in muddy uniforms strolled home along the town’s main road aft...
- November 17, 2019
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Tokyo's Yamanote Line Partially Shutting Down Saturday For Station Construction
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - Thanks to snarled traffic, trains are by far the best way to get around Tokyo, and you can hit up the vast majority of the downtown sights using just one line. The JR Yamanote line forms a loop around the city center, and can take you to the high-fashion boutiques of Ginza, ...
TOKYO - Thanks to snarled traffic, trains are by far the best way to get around Tokyo, and you can hit up the vast majority of the downtown sights using just one line. The JR Yamanote line forms a loop around the city center, and can take you to the high-fashion boutiques of Ginza, ...
- November 15, 2019
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Blood-Red Evangelion Hot Spring Bath To Open In Japan For Fun, Relaxing Terror
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SORA NEWS
East Japan’s premier hot spring town, the real-world Tokyo-3, wants you to bathe in LCL.
With the chill in the air getting increasingly chilly, we’ve been spending more and more time looking for hot springs to warm ourselves up in. Japan is spoiled for choice on that front, though, si...
East Japan’s premier hot spring town, the real-world Tokyo-3, wants you to bathe in LCL.
With the chill in the air getting increasingly chilly, we’ve been spending more and more time looking for hot springs to warm ourselves up in. Japan is spoiled for choice on that front, though, si...
- November 15, 2019
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Japan's Emperor Has A $248 Million Dinner Date With A Sun Goddess
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CNN
(CNN)Japan's new Emperor Naruhito will take part in a ritual feast with a sun goddess on Thursday night as part of a centuries-old ceremony to celebrate his ascension to the throne.
But not everyone is on board with the ritual, which has been criticized for violating the constitutional sep...
(CNN)Japan's new Emperor Naruhito will take part in a ritual feast with a sun goddess on Thursday night as part of a centuries-old ceremony to celebrate his ascension to the throne.
But not everyone is on board with the ritual, which has been criticized for violating the constitutional sep...
- November 14, 2019
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Women In Japan Are Fighting For The Right To Wear Glasses To Work
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REFINERY 29
Ah, the tangled web of sexist workplace dress code violations women of the world must navigate daily.
This week, it’s women in Japan who are protesting edicts from companies than ban (only women, not men) from wearing glasses in the workplace.
During a segment that ran on the Japa...
Ah, the tangled web of sexist workplace dress code violations women of the world must navigate daily.
This week, it’s women in Japan who are protesting edicts from companies than ban (only women, not men) from wearing glasses in the workplace.
During a segment that ran on the Japa...
- November 12, 2019
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Starbucks Japan Gives Kyoto And Hyogo Their Very Own Frappuccinos For A Very Limited Time
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JAPAN TODAY
TOKYO - It's been 20 years since Starbucks first arrived in Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures, three years after the green mermaid first appeared in the country in Tokyo’s Ginza back in 1996. Now, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Starbucks in Hyogo and Kyoto, the coffeehouse chain is ...
TOKYO - It's been 20 years since Starbucks first arrived in Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures, three years after the green mermaid first appeared in the country in Tokyo’s Ginza back in 1996. Now, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Starbucks in Hyogo and Kyoto, the coffeehouse chain is ...
- November 11, 2019
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