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Plastic Piling Up in Japan After China Waste Import Ban

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - The government said Thursday it was facing a growing sea of plastic waste with limited capacity to process it after China stopped accepting foreign waste imports.
The environment ministry said about a quarter of major regional and municipal governments surveyed reported seei...

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Yoshito Sengoku, Cabinet Member During Democratic Party of Japan Administration, Dies at 72

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Yoshito Sengoku, who served as the top government spokesman and an administrative reform minister when the now-defunct Democratic Party of Japan was in power, died of lung cancer last week, the Lower House secretariat said Tuesday. He was 72.
Sengoku concurrently served as the minis...

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Boys Love Sommelier Uses AI to Find Titles To Quench Your Man-on-man Manga Romance Thirst

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Answers to just a few questions, like whether or not you’re in the mood for something “rock-hard,” is all the information the free-to-use virtual assistant needs.
To outside observers, the boys love genre of anime and manga might seem pretty one-dimensional. They’re all just tales ...

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White Tiger Kills Zookeeper in Japan But Family Urges Mercy

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BBC
 
A rare white tiger has mauled a zookeeper to death in its enclosure at a zoo in Japan, officials say.
Akira Furusho, 40, was found bleeding from the neck in the tiger's cage at the zoo in the southern city of Kagoshima. He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead.
The male tiger, named Rik...

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Osako Sets New Japan Record at Chicago Marathon, Finishes 3rd

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
CHICAGO — Suguru Osako hammered out a new national record at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, clocking 2 hours 5 minutes 50 seconds to finish third in the men’s race.
The 27-year-old shaved 21 seconds off the previous record set by Yuta Shitara in February this year.
Britain’s Mo ...

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Number of Japan Minors Victimized in Crimes Via Social Media Down Slightly But Remains High: National Police Agency

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The number of minors who fell prey to sexual and other crimes through the use of social media in the first half of 2018 dropped from a year earlier but remained high, provisional data by the National Police Agency showed Thursday.
A total of 856 minors under 18 fell victim, down 63 ...

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45.2% Do Not View Abe Cabinet Reshuffle Positively: Poll

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's latest cabinet reshuffle has failed to gain much public support, with a Kyodo News survey showing Wednesday that 45.2 percent of respondents did not view it positively, while only 31.0 percent said they did.
A reshuffle typically helps boost a cab...

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Treated Water at Fukushima Plant Far Too Unsafe To Be Dumped Soon

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ASAHI SHINBUN
 
Steps to purify a radioactive water buildup at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have come to naught, forcing the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., to go back to the drawing board.
On Sept. 28, TEPCO acknowledged that about 80 percent of the water in giant storage...

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The Japanese Anime Tackling Workplace Bullying

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BBC
 
Aggretsuko, a Japanese cartoon for adults on Netflix, is currently making waves around the world. But why is it so popular with millennials?
Aggretsuko is a cartoon character created by Sanrio, the company behind the popular character Hello Kitty.
The series focuses on a red panda called Re...

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Nagoya City Council Debates If Toilet Paper Really Needed in Public Restrooms

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - For the second year in a row, Nagoya City was voted Japan’s “least appealing city” by a decisive margin. To be fair it was only from a field of eight major Japanese cities, so saying this result means Nagoya is a bad city is like saying a Best Picture Oscar nominee is a bad ...

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