JAPAN TODAY
 
Babies cry while held up by amateur sumo wrestlers during Nakizumo or a baby-crying sumo contest, where two wrestlers hold a baby each and a referee makes faces and loud noises to make them cry and determines the winner based on the loudest baby, at Sensoji temple in Tokyo, on Sunda...

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CONSULTACY.ASIA
 
Global accounting and consulting firm PwC has appointed Masataka Kubota as its next chairman for its Japanese business.
A partner in the Assurance division, Masataka Kubota has been with PwC since 1997, growing the ranks to become partner and leader of the Assurance business. O...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, headed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, lost three seats in House of Representatives by-elections Sunday, including Shimane Prefecture, known as a conservative stronghold, delivering a harsh indictment on the scandal-hit LDP.
The leading opposition C...

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VOI.ID
 
The bullet train service in Japan was forced to temporarily delay its operations even though it was only a few minutes away, while authorities would conduct an investigation into the incident.
A snake about 40 centimeters long was found inside the Shinkansen bullet train upon arrival at ...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Despite talk of a Nobel peace prize, Japan’s leader is facing a backlash among voters as key byelection approaches
In the past fortnight Fumio Kishida has been mentioned as a possible recipient of the Nobel peace prize and praised for a speech to congress in which he urged the US n...

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BBC
 
A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it.
 The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m by 4m (36ft by 15ft), with a mass of three tonnes.
 It's the first time anyone has managed to r...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Three 18-year-old men were killed and a fourth man the same age injured after the light car they were traveling in crashed through a guardrail and fell into a rice field in Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture, on Thursday night.
Police received a call at around 10:30 p.m. from a local r...

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CNA
 
A huge black barrier to block Mount Fuji from view will be installed in a popular photo spot by Japanese authorities exasperated by crowds of badly behaved foreign tourists.
Construction of the mesh net – 2.5m high and the length of a cricket pitch at 20m – will begin as early as next week,...

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BBC
 
A zoo in Japan has confirmed that a hippopotamus thought for seven years to be a he is, in fact, a she.
 A DNA test was carried out after zookeepers noticed that 12-year-old Gen-chan did not display typical male hippo behaviour.
 Gen-chan arrived in Osaka from Mexico in 2017, and customs do...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The National Police Agency disclosed a plan Thursday to increase the minimum amount of state benefits paid to bereaved families of crime victims.
Under the plan to revise the benefit system, the minimum amount will be raised from ¥3.2 million to ¥10.6 million in principle. The NPA a...

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