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Farmers Welcome Japan Move To End British Beef And Lamb Ban

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BBC NEWS
 
 
Scottish farmers and food producers have welcomed news that Japan is to lift a long-standing ban on British beef and lamb.
The move came ahead of a meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Theresa May in London.
Japan introduced the ban on imports in 1996 following the o...

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Final Fantasy XIV Wedding Service Recreates Marriage Ceremony From Video Game

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Final Fantasy fans looking to get hitched in the near future may want to consider a ceremony that marries them to their hobby as well as their spouse.
The Final Fantasy XIV Wedding service will be offered in Japan from 2019, creating a real-world version of the RPG video game’s Cer...

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NMB48 Announces Team Shuffle Starting In March

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TOKYOHIVE
 
On January 1, NMB48 held a New Year's event at their theater where they announced a team shuffle which will be effective come March. 
 
Team N will be comprised of 13 members with Kawakami Chihiro as captain and Ishida Yumi as vice captain. Meanwhile, Team M will have 14 members inclu...

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Writer For Hollywood Version Of Anime 'Your Name.' Says Japanese Side Wants Westernized Viewpoint

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - It’s been more than a year since the announcement that anime director Makoto Shinkai’s "your name." is being remade as a Hollywood live-action movie, with JJ Abrams serving as producer and Eric Heisserer as screenwriter. Since then, however, there’s been no concrete news on ...

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Driver Ploughs Through Crowds On Tokyo's Takeshita Street, Injuring Nine

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
 
Nine people were injured — one seriously — in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward in the early hours of Tuesday when a man rammed his car into pedestrians on a well-known shopping street in what he claimed was an act of terrorism, authorities said.
Police arrested Kazuhiro Kusakabe, 21, who w...

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S. Korean Doctor Learns Lessons In Care In Aging Town In Tottori

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ASAHI
 
HINO, Tottori Prefecture--A veteran South Korean journalist who became a doctor is now treating patients in an aging and shrinking Japanese town with an eye on preparing her home country for a graying society.
Lee Yong-ee, 54, started working as an internal medicine doctor at public-suppo...

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Ghibli Moss Art Discovered Along Mountain Road In Japan

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ROCKET  NEWS
 
Totoro, Kiki, and No Face are just some of the characters who’ve emerged from the moss-covered wall.
If you’ve watched any of the films from Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli, you’ll know just how integral the world of nature is to many of their plots and characters.
From the...

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5-Year Prison Terms Sought For Former TEPCO Executives

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ASAHI
 
Prosecutors on Dec. 26 demanded five-year prison terms for three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. over the disaster caused by a tsunami slamming into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
“It was easy to safeguard the plant against tsunami, but they kept operating the plan...

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New Era Approaches, But Japan's Dwindling Imperial Line Clouds Future

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - As Japan prepares for the first imperial succession in about 200 years involving a living monarch this coming spring, it has yet to address concerns about the future of the imperial line and the shortage of royals performing official duties.
Emperor Akihito, 85, is set to ab...

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Japanese Students’ Eyesight The Worst In Recent Years, Smartphones And Mobile Games Are Blamed

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ROCKET NEWS
 
 
A potential heavy price to pay for convenience and entertainment?
Japan has a ton of quality mobile games that can entertain players for hours on end, but spending too much time staring at a bright little screen can be rather detrimental to vision.
Visual acuity data gathered from...

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