RT.IE
 
To exaggerate a notion doing the rounds at the moment one might suggest that Japan just post the five points to Ireland ahead of the Pool A game on Saturday morning.
Head coach Jamie Joseph should, according to all conventional wisdom and good common sense, target the Scots.
On the one ha...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
BAKU – Japan won its first group world championship in rhythmic gymnastics on Sunday, capturing the group five balls competition along with a silver in three hoops and two clubs.
Japan’s entry in the group competition, “Fairy Japan”, won the nation’s first silver medal in the group ...

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ESPN
 
OSAKA, Japan -- Naomi Osaka won her first singles title since the Australian Open in January by beating Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-3 in the Toray Pan Pacific final on Sunday.
Enjoying strong support from a parochial crowd, the former No. 1-ranked Osaka dominated the match wit...

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KYODO NEWS
 
With an aging population and a growing shortage of drivers, Japan is a country where autonomous transportation services would seem to have a bright future.
Demand is particularly high for self-driving trucks in regions with few alternatives to hauling freight by road, such as the nor...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Young people in 117 countries on Friday called on policymakers to take overdue steps against climate change as part of a global strike just days ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit set to begin in New York on Monday.
Affiliated events organized across Japan on Friday d...

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CBS NEWS
 
Tokyo — The latest must-have product to take Japan by storm isn't high-tech and it certainly isn't garnering rave reviews in glossy design magazines. The country where electronically controlled, heated, bidet-accessorized, high-tech toilets are commonplace has in fact made another cont...

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BBC
 
Japan's former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has visited a controversial war memorial just days after stepping down.
Mr Abe posted a picture of himself at the Yasukuni Shrine, telling his followers he had gone there to inform the spirits of his resignation.
He largely stayed away from the shr...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
With the Rugby World Cup expected to draw about 500,000 visitors to Japan, attitudes have been split among public bath operators nationwide over whether to accept foreign customers with tattoos.
Some facilities will accept such customers for a limited period of time in keeping wi...

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NIPPON.COM
 
Japan now has 71,238 centenarians. The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare announced a rise of 1,453 citizens aged 100 and over, based on resident registration data as of September 15, 2019, in the forty-ninth consecutive annual increase. Japanese centenarians are overwhelmingly f...

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BBC
 
Last month, Shinjiro Koizumi, a Japanese lawmaker who is the second son of popular former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, grabbed headlines after he announced his marriage to a TV personality, and considered the possibility of taking paternity leave after the birth of their child.
It was ...

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