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Quasi-Permanent UNSC Seat Needed for Japan: Ex-Official

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NIPPON
 
Japan should encourage the United Nations to establish quasi-permanent Security Council membership and pursue the position, former senior U.N. official Kiyotaka Akasaka has said.
"Quasi-permanent seats allowing consecutive re-elections should be established, and Japan should secure one,"...

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Japan Allows Over-The-Counter 'Morning After' Pill For First Time

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BBC
 
Japan has for the first time approved over-the-counter sales of an emergency contraceptive pill, its manufacturer says, allowing women in the country to take the medication without prescription.
ASKA Pharmaceutical said wider access to the pill would "empower Japanese women in the area of r...

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Malware Attack On Japan Office Supplier Askul Halts Services Of Other Firms

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Retailers that commission their delivery operations to a subsidiary of online stationery retailer Askul Corp said Monday they have halted services of their online stores following a ransomware attack at the weekend.
Askul suspended its order acceptance and shipping operations Sunday...

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Ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi On Track To Become Japan’s First Female Prime Minister

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AP NEWS
 
Japan’s governing party leader, Sanae Takaichi, is on track to become the country’s first female prime minister, after finding a badly needed replacement for a crucial partner that left her Liberal Democratic Party’s coalition.
Takaichi, 64, would replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba i...

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Japan's Empress Emerita Michiko Turns 91

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NIPPON
 
Japanese Empress Emerita Michiko, wife of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and mother of Emperor Naruhito, marked her 91st birthday on Monday.
 
The Empress Emerita broke her right thigh bone in October last year, but has recovered to almost the same condition as before the fracture. She careful...

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Influenza Cases In Japan Surge 50% Week On Week

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NHK
 
Health authorities in Japan are urging people to take precautions against influenza. They say cases nationwide have surged by about 50 percent in the space of a week.
The Japan Institute for Health Security and others say there were 9,074 cases reported by more than 3,000 medical institutio...

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Japan to Conduct Survey on Online Hate Speech

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NIPPON
 
The Japanese Justice Ministry is considering conducting the first nationwide survey on online hate speech against foreign visitors and residents in fiscal 2026.
As discriminatory posts against specific ethnic groups and nationalities have spread on social media and become a social issue,...

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Japan PM Hopeful Avoids War Shrine Visit

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HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
 
The new head of Japan's ruling party Sanae Takaichi sent an offering but avoided visiting a controversial war shrine on Oct. 17, as the prospects of her becoming prime minister brightened.
Takaichi became Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader on Oct. 4 but her aim to become ...

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Former PM Tomiichi Murayama Dies At Age 101

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Former Japan Socialist Party Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who led a coalition government with longtime rival the Liberal Democratic Party in the mid-1990s and delivered a key statement apologizing for Japan’s World War II aggression, died Friday morning in the city of Oita. He ...

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Fatal Bear Attacks In Japan Hit Record Number

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FRANCE 24
 
Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday just as another possible victim was reported missing.
Bears hungry because of shortages of food such as acorns -- which has been blamed on climate change -- are encroaching more i...

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