JAPAN TIMES
 
"Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window," directed by Japan's Shinnosuke Yakuwa, received an award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France on Saturday.
The Paul Grimault Award, a special award for a feature film, was given to the Japanese work at the film fe...

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ARAB NEWS
 
The custom of Father’s Day in Japan has a unique history and has developed in its own way.
Many people give red carnations to their mothers for Mother’s Day. Meanwhile, sunflowers have been becoming a popular gift for Father’s Day in recent years. But the situation had been different ...

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NIPPON
 
A Japanese research team has succeeded in reaccelerating muons, a type of elementary particle, after artificially cooling them, in the first such breakthrough in the world.
The achievement is expected to help better re-examine the standard theory of physics that explains the movements of...

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RFA
 
 
South Korean media reported that Japanese and North Korean representatives met in secret in Mongolia last month.
The Japanese government declined to comment on a South Korean media report that officials from Japan and North Korea had a secret meeting in Mongolia last month, saying it was ...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Japan’s parliament enacted legislation on Friday to create a new skill development program for foreign workers to ease serious labor shortages in the country.
The government plans to introduce the program as early as 2027 to replace the current technical intern training scheme for fo...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's parliament on Friday enacted revised laws to replace a controversy-plagued foreign trainee program with a new system that encourages workers from abroad to stay longer, as authorities look to address the serious labor shortage created by the country's demographic crisis.
The ...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The ruling and opposition parties are unlikely to reach an agreement during the current parliamentary session over measures to secure a sufficient number of imperial family members, sources said Wednesday.
This is mainly because the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of...

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CNA
 
A Japanese property developer has decided to demolish a near-complete, 10-storey condominium in Tokyo after pushback from neighbours who said it blocked a view of Mount Fuji.
The company Sekisui House said in a statement late on Tuesday (Jun 11) that it had "voluntarily decided to discontin...

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KYODO NEWS
 
A former counselor at the Singapore Embassy returned to Japan in June to be questioned by police over allegations he secretly took images of a naked schoolboy at a public bath in Tokyo, police said Thursday.
Sim Siong Chye, a 55-year-old former counselor who had been asked by police ...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Tokyo police have arrested 26 people in a side job fraud case in which a total of ¥1.91 billion or more is believed to have been taken from about 8,600 victims across Japan.
The Metropolitan Police Department has also searched a total of 11 locations in Tokyo and four other prefectu...

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