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TOKYO  - Women government and business leaders from over 60 countries gathered at a forum in Tokyo that began Thursday to discuss how to accelerate women's economic progress worldwide.
Addressing the opening ceremony of the 27-year-old Global Summit of Women, Japanese Prime Minister...

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TOKYO - Dozens of detainees at a Japanese immigration center continued their hunger strike on Thursday in protest against prolonged and multiple detentions, drawing fresh attention to the policy towards immigration.
Some of the hunger strikers were asylum seekers and others had live...

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A team composed of members of a national research institute and other organizations has developed a system for predicting how far a tsunami will travel inland within a few minutes after a major earthquake occurs.
This is a Cabinet Office project, initially aimed at introducing th...

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TOKYO - Thousands of people took part in a parade in Tokyo's Shibuya district Sunday to raise awareness of issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, marching on along busy shopping streets led by a float decorated in rainbow colors.
About 6,000 participated, i...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
The “beer girls” (uriko) at baseball games are a somewhat iconic image of sporting events in Japan. They can be found walking around the stands with beer backpacks, always ready to pour you out a cold sud with a smile on their youthful faces.
But what about people who fancy a diffe...

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TOKYO - Golden Week holiday travelers clogged expressways and flooded train stations and airports across the country Wednesday on the first day of consecutive national holidays.
Traffic jams stretched over 40 kilometers in eastern and central Japan, with the longest reaching 47 km i...

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TOKYO - Japan's nuclear authority approved decommissioning plans for five aging reactors at four power plants on Wednesday, the first such approvals since a government regulation was implemented after the 2011 Fukushima disaster to stop the operation of reactors beyond 40 years.
The...

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The transformation of Shibuya continues with the opening of Shibuya Cast on April 28th.
Following the opening of Shibuya Hikarie in 2012 and the upcoming openings of multiple other complexes around the station area, Shibuya Cast will feature 18 floors with select shops, cafes, rest...

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Something special happens when anime music meets classical music. As was true with the classical music concert renditions of the Ghibli, Final Fantasy, and Super Mario soundtracks, the music becomes warmer, deeper and often more emotional. The latest to get the classical music trea...

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HIROSHIMA (Jiji Press) — The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has added a panoramic display of computer-generated images of the city soon before and after it was struck by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945.
The museum’s renovated East Building, with changed exhibits, was shown to...

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