JAPAN TODAY
 
The Defense Ministry will seek a record-high budget of over 7 trillion yen for the next fiscal year, a source familiar with the matter said Tuesday, a move in line with Japan's new security strategy to eventually double its annual defense outlays.
The defense spending plan for the y...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Typhoon Khanun moved slowly northward toward Japan's southwestern Kyushu on Tuesday, bringing parts of the island into a storm zone and prompting a railway operator to suspend some of its shinkansen bullet train service there.
The weather agency warned of mudslides, overflowing river...

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ANTARA NEWS
 
Japanese artist Sakura Tomomi Ijuin has been trying to connect Indonesian and Japanese cultures since 2011 through the Sakuranesia Society Foundation, which provides opportunities for the younger generation to make friends using art.
Since 2011, she has been carrying out activities ...

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AP NEWS
 
Japan expressed concern on Monday over Iran’s advancing uranium enrichment program and the Middle East country’s suspected supplying of combat drones to Moscow for Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi raised the two issues during talks with his visiting Ir...

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Release of contaminated water from the damaged nuclear plant has been criticised by fishers and countries in the region
Japan plans to start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean as soon as late August, Japan’s Asa...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Iran's foreign minister visited Japan on Monday for the first time since 2019 to meet his opposite number, officials said, with a meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also reportedly on the cards.
The purpose of the rare visit by Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to a G7 member country ...

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AP NEWS
 
Residents of Japan’s southwestern islands were warned of high winds and rain Friday through the weekend as Typhoon Khanun made a U-turn and is now moving back east.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said Khanun was heading to Okinawa and nearby islands that were already lashed by its wind...

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BBC
 
Japan took a step closer to a second Women's World Cup title when they beat Norway to reach the quarter-finals.
The 2011 champions made the ideal start when Norway defender Ingrid Engen turned Hinata Miyazawa's cross into her own net.
However, Norway equalised a few minutes later when Guro ...

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ARAB NEWS
 
The Embassy of Japan in Sudan, which was temporarily closed on April 24 due to the rapid deterioration of the security situation in Sudan and transferred to an office in Djibouti, has been relocated again.
Effective Aug. 1, the temporary office will be in the Egyptian capital Cairo, w...

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ANTARA NEWS
 
The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fishery (KKP) and Japan's Miyagi Prefecture explored cooperation in the development of maritime and fishery human resources, with a special focus on the preparations of specified skilled workers (SSWs).
Head of KKP Ministry's Extension and Human ...

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