JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - For a good chunk of the 1990s, "Yu Yu Hakusho" was one of the biggest hits in the anime/manga world. The story of undead teenage delinquent Yusuke and his supernatural atrial arts battles, "Yu Yu Hakusho" took the "Demon Slayer: Kietsu no Yaiba" route and wrapped up in a tim...

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BBC
 
Rescuers are trying to free more than 1,000 vehicles which have been stranded on a highway for two days after a heavy snow storm struck Japan.
Authorities have distributed food, fuel and blankets to the drivers on the Kanetsu expressway, which connects the capital Tokyo to Niigata, in the n...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Even a politician as strait-laced as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga can show he has a lighter side.
Appearing Friday in an online streaming program, Suga introduced himself by saying, “Hello, everyone. I’m Gaasuu” — a playful nickname used mainly in social media that is a reversal...

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GLOBAL RISK INSIGHTS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga embarked on his first diplomatic visits last month, meeting the Vietnamese and Indonesian governments. Suga’s choice of Vietnam and Indonesia, both important members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), demonstrates h...

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 BBC
 
Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love.
From next year it will subsidise local governments already running or starting projects that use AI to pair people up.
Last year the number of babies born in J...

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PHYS.ORG
 
A Japanese capsule carrying the world's first asteroid subsurface samples shot across the night atmosphere early Sunday before landing in the remote Australian Outback, completing a mission to provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth.
The spacecraft Hayabusa2 r...

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TOKYO HIVE
 
It's been reported that 15 members of the AKB48 Group have been placed on quarantine and monitoring their health at home after NMB48's Shiroma Miru tested positive for COVID-19 on November 30.
The members who worked with Shiroma are AKB48's Okada Nana, Okabe Rin, Oguri Yui, Kashiwagi...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Sanrio Puroland is celebrating its 30th Anniversary from Dec 7. To commemorate the occasion, they will have a retrospective live-streamed show on the eve of the festivities on their official YouTube channel, and they've already put up a special video promoting the festivities (see b...

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NHK WORLD
 
Tokyo's daily tally of coronavirus infections reached an all-time high of 570 cases on Friday. The previous record was 539, reported last Saturday.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says the newly confirmed cases involve people aged under 10 to over 100.
Officials say the daily figure...

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AP NEWS
 
A Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid with soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system, a space agency official said Friday.
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million k...

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