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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Former Nippon Professional Baseball star Sachio Kinugasa, nicknamed the “Iron Man” for setting the then world record for consecutive games played with 2,215 for the Hiroshima Carp, died of ascending colon cancer on Monday, it was learned Tuesday. He was 71.
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Fans of the anime Cowboy Bebop will jump at the chance to enter the world of their favorite 1990s anime TV series at two real-world locations in Japan.
Making us feel somewhat old, Sunrise’s Cowboy Bebop is now 20 years old. To celebrate the anniversary, a pop-up cafe is opening at...

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Japanese defender Saki Kumagai is presented with the trophy after her team won the AFC Women's Asian Cup Finals match against Australia at the King Abdullah II Stadium in Amman, Jordan, on Friday.
Japan won back-to-back Women's Asian Cup trophies Friday with a 1-0 victory over Austr...

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TOKYO - When Yumi Katsura opened Japan’s first bridal store in 1964, little did she know that she was launching a quiet revolution. Despite nearly two decades passing since the end of World War II, Japan in the early 1960s was still in the first stages of economic recovery. The brid...

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TOKYO - Japan's population fell for the seventh consecutive year to around 127 million in 2017, when people aged 65 or over accounted for a record 27.7 percent of the total, continuing on the path of a super-aged society, according to government data.
According to the World Healt...

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TOKYO (Reuters) — Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Sunday that Tokyo and Beijing needed to work more closely together to denuclearize North Korea, in comments made during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
 Wang’s arrival in Tokyo comes ahead of a summit between th...

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TOKYO - The Japanese government on Friday greeted with cautious optimism the news that U.S. President Donald Trump is willing to explore re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, while stressing that Washington should accept the original terms.
"If this means that Presid...

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A train to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Seto Ohashi bridge, which links the major islands of Honshu and Shikoku across the Seto Inland Sea, gets ready to depart from JR Okayama Station as Okayama Gov. Ryuta Ibaragi, second from right, and others signal its departure on...

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OITA - A massive landslide engulfed four houses in a tourist town in the southwestern prefecture of Oita early Wednesday morning, leaving six people unaccounted for and severing a road leading to the site, local authorities said.
A mountain slope collapsed behind a group of houses a...

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TOKYO - On January 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: "strong" earthquake coming.
The message delivered via the country's alert system, part of its much-hyped J-Alert me...

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