CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
 
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Darwin in November in a first for a Japanese leader since the Japanese imperial army bombed the Australian city during World War II, Australian media reported on Saturday.
Abe will tour a US$40 billion liquefied natural gas ...

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BBC
 
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa first entered the public eye as a drummer in a hardcore punk band.
He went on to make a fortune as an online fashion tycoon, and is best known outside Japan for spending tens of millions of dollars at record-breaking art auctions.
Mr Maezawa's ambitions n...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — Japan’s Kento Momota outgunned Thai rival Khosit Phetpradab 21-14, 21-11 in a one-sided final to capture the Japan Open badminton title on Sunday.
The 24-year-old sank to his knees after a towering smash completed a comfortable win, kissing the Japanese badge o...

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ASAHI
 
Inspired by an American girl who wanted to make life sweeter for others in her condition, students and others are selling lemonade to help children suffering from tumors.
The campaign, started by a 4-year-old cancer patient 18 years ago to raise donations through sales of homemade lemonad...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Tokyo’s first permanent Pokémon cafe opened in March this year in the central district of Nihonbashi.
 
After welcoming patrons for several months, it’s time for the cafe to change its menu to suit the autumn season. And besides maple leaves and the rice harvest, autumn in Japan me...

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BBC
 
A proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been defeated at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Brazil.
Japan and several other pro-whaling countries voted against the proposal, causing it to fall short of the two-thirds majority it needed to pas...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Whatever happened to the spirit of volunteering?
Two years after announcing strict volunteer requirements for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and realizing they could not get enough help for free, the Japanese ministry has instead turned to universities and their vast human resources, going...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
LYON, FRANCE – Crown Prince Naruhito, who is set to become the nation’s next emperor after his father, Emperor Akihito, abdicates next April, on Saturday met with Japanese schoolchildren and toured a world-renowned textile museum at the start of his nine-day goodwill visit to France...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
CHICAGO (AP) — Two-way star Shohei Ohtani homered for the third straight game after learning he will probably need Tommy John surgery, launching a three-run shot to cap the Los Angeles Angels’ four-run third inning in a 5-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Friday night.
Shut...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - After an earthquake knocked out power to 5.3 million people this week, Hokkaido Electric restored service to most of them by the end of Friday, but experts say the island-wide outage highlights fundamental flaws in Japan's power grid.
The blackout that hit Hokkaido after ear...

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