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An Aberdeen karate great is to present a Scottish Samurai honour to the Japanese Prime Minister.
Ronnie Watt OBE is part of a Scottish Samurai Awards delegation heading to Japan, with the highlight set to be the meeting with Shinzo Abe next week.
Mr Watt - who has a 9th Dan ranking - founde...

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The chief priest at Japan's controversial Yasukuni Shrine is to resign after making remarks highly critical of Emperor Akihito.
In comments leaked to a magazine, Kunio Kohori said he believed Emperor Akihito was trying to destroy the shrine by not visiting it.
The shrine in Tokyo honours Ja...

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The foothills of Mount Fuji will be the setting for the individual time trial events at the Tokyo Olympics, 2020 organisers and world cycling's governing body (UCI) announced on Wednesday.
TOKYO: The foothills of Mount Fuji will be the setting for the individual time trial e...

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KYOTO (Jiji Press) — Tasuku Honjo, distinguished professor at Kyoto University, said Tuesday that he has led a fortunate life, expressing his delight at winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Honjo, 76, wearing a navy suit and a light blue tie, arrived at the uni...

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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi will request Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to retain Keiichi Ishii of the party as land, infrastructure, transport and tourism minister in a Cabinet reshuffle slated for Tuesday, party sources said Saturday.
Yamaguchi believes that...

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NEW YORK - U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Wednesday to start trade talks in an arrangement that, for now, protects Japanese automakers from further tariffs, seen as a major threat to the export-dependent economy.
In a joint statement, th...

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Two robotic explorers are descending to the surface of an asteroid.
Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft despatched a pair of "rovers" to the 1km-wide space rock known as Ryugu.
If all goes well, Hayabusa-2 will be the first spacecraft to successfully place robot rovers on the surface of an astero...

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The heaviest wrestler in the history of the Japan Sumo Association — weighing slightly over 290 kilograms — has called it quits, saying he would return to his homeland of Russia after retirement.
Orora, a wrestler in the second-lowest jonidan division, won his last career bout at...

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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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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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