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Japan To Expel Russia Consul As Ties Worsen Over Ukraine

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AP NEWS
 
Japan on Tuesday ordered the Russian consul in the northern city of Sapporo to leave the country within six days in retaliation for Moscow’s expulsion of a Japanese diplomat last month for alleged espionage.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said his ministry declared the cons...

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Myanmar Jails Japanese Filmmaker For Sedition

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REUTERS
 
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese documentary filmmaker to 10 years in prison for violating sedition and communications laws, a Japanese foreign ministry official said on Thursday.
Toru Kubota, 26, was arrested in July at a protest in Myanmar's main city of Yang...

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North Korea Conducts Longest-Range Missile Test Yet Over Japan

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REUTERS
 
Missile flies over Japan for first time since 2017Seoul says it appears to have been intermediate-range missileJapan issues shelter warning, stops some trainsTest condemned by U.S., South Korea, Japan
SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missil...

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Japan Revises Law To Speed Identification Of Anonymous Cyberbullies

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan enforced Saturday a revised law that simplifies legal procedures to identify cyberbullies, accelerating efforts to relieve victims on social media and online forums more swiftly.
In many previous cases, such victims needed to primarily sue two parties -- the operator of social ...

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Indonesian VP On Dual Mission During Visit To Japan

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ANTARA NEWS
 
Vice President Ma'ruf Amin and Second Lady Wury departed for Nippon Budokan to attend former Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe's state funeral on September 27.
Amin was dressed in black suit and pants, black kopiah, and a black-white ribbon on the left chest, while the Second ...

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NBA Japan Games 2022 Presented By Rakuten & Nissan: By The Numbers

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NHK
 
A research group at Kyoto University has developed a robot that's a lot more sociable than the average android. It appears to understand humor and can laugh along with its human companions.
The group, led by Assistant Professor Inoue Koji of Kyoto University's Graduate School of Informatics...

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Indonesia-Japan Home Affairs Ministers Talk of Bilateral Ties

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TEMPO
 
Indonesia’s Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian met with his Japanese counterpart Minoru Terada in Tokyo today, September 28, 2022, to discuss bilateral cooperation in various sectors under the management of the two ministries.
“This includes governance, population administration, flo...

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Shinzo Abe: A Divided Japan Bids Farewell To Its Slain Ex-PM

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BBC
 
In a black kimono Shinzo Abe's widow Akie walked slowly, carrying her husband's ashes in a silk-covered funeral urn.
She placed it on a wide altar covered in white chrysanthemums.
Above it hung a huge photo of Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister.
Only once before in Japan's post-wa...

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Kishida Meets With Harris In ‘Funeral Diplomacy’

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began what is known as “funeral diplomacy” Monday afternoon ahead of the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the following day.
Over the three days to Wednesday, the prime minister is scheduled to meet with leaders and top officials of m...

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Japan Motogp: Miller Dominates, Bagnaia Crashes Out On Last Lap

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MOTOR SPORT
 
Jack Miller dominated the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix to salvage a dark day for Ducati’s 2022 title hopes, as teammate Francesco Bagnaia crashed on the last lap.Going without a win since last year’s wet French GP, Miller grabbed the lead on lap three and streaked away to his first vi...

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