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 “The Grand Tour’s” James May is going on the road with Amazon again, but without motoring buddies Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond at his side. “Our Man in…Japan” will see May travel the titular Asian country on a quest to understand its unique, extraordinary and complex culture.
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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - With Japan keen to flaunt Tokyo 2020 as the "Reconstruction Olympics", people who fled the Fukushima nuclear disaster are being urged to return home but not everyone is eager to go.
Tokyo and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) plan to use the global spotlight from the...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Vessel believed to have collided with marine life, possibly a whale, off Sado island
At least 80 people have been injured after a ferry collided with what was believed to be a marine animal, possibly a whale, off the coast of Japan.
The incident happened just after noon on Saturday...

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BBC
 
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has received this year's Pritzker Prize, widely considered to be the profession's highest honour.
The jury said he pioneered the "understanding that the need for architecture is both global and local".
Isozaki said growing up not far from the bombed city of...

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NDTV
 
Hayabusa2 lands on asteroid Ryugu: The images, released Tuesday, show sand and rocks flying up after the probe fired a bullet into the asteroid to collect samples.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released photographs and video showing its space probe Hayabusa2 touching dow...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
NEW YORK- Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions.
The 87-year-old's more than 100 built works range from the Palau Saint Jordi, bu...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Birhanu Legese of Ethiopia won the 2019 Tokyo Marathon on Sunday in the men’s division with a time of 2.04:48 — his first win in the race — while compatriot Ruti Aga came in first in the women’s division at 2.20:40.
Kensuke Horio of Japan came in fifth with a time of 2.10:21, whi...

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NBC NEWS
 
"Trump succeeded in setting in place the kind of dynamics between the two — one begging and the other refusing," an adviser to Japan's prime minister said.
Some of the countries living in fear of Kim Jong Un’s arsenal appeared to heave a collective sigh of relief Thursday even though P...

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THE GUARDIAN
Several cases involve members of the religious group Kyusei Shinkyo that believes that medicines are ‘harmful’ 
Japan is battling its worst measles outbreak in a decade, amid World Health Organisation (WHO) warnings that global efforts to halt the spread of the disease were failing, ...

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WASHINGTON POST
 
TOKYO — Voters in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa resoundingly rejected the construction of a new U.S. military base on their island in a referendum Sunday, causing a fresh headache for the central government and for U.S. forces in Japan.
Okinawa is home to about half the 54,...

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