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Swallows’ Murakami Hits 56th Homer, Breaks Oh’s Record

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
Munetaka Murakami of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows hit his 56th home run of the season Monday night, breaking the Nippon Professional Baseball record for a Japanese-born player.
Murakami surpassed former Yomiuri Giants legend Sadaharu Oh’s 1964 record during the final game of the reg...

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Japan Revises Law To Speed Identification Of Anonymous Cyberbullies

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan enforced Saturday a revised law that simplifies legal procedures to identify cyberbullies, accelerating efforts to relieve victims on social media and online forums more swiftly.
In many previous cases, such victims needed to primarily sue two parties -- the operator of social ...

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Japan WWII Poison Gas Agents Still Scarring People Today

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Japan and China recently marked the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations, but traces of around 7.46 million poison gas weapons produced mainly during their war from 1937 to 1945 remain in both countries.
Some of the weapons abandoned or disposed of at the en...

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Indonesian VP On Dual Mission During Visit To Japan

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ANTARA NEWS
 
Vice President Ma'ruf Amin and Second Lady Wury departed for Nippon Budokan to attend former Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Shinzo Abe's state funeral on September 27.
Amin was dressed in black suit and pants, black kopiah, and a black-white ribbon on the left chest, while the Second ...

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NBA Japan Games 2022 Presented By Rakuten & Nissan: By The Numbers

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NHK
 
A research group at Kyoto University has developed a robot that's a lot more sociable than the average android. It appears to understand humor and can laugh along with its human companions.
The group, led by Assistant Professor Inoue Koji of Kyoto University's Graduate School of Informatics...

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S. Korea, Us And Japan Hold Anti-N. Korean Submarine Drills

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AP NEWS
 
South Korea, U.S. and Japanese warships launched their first trilateral anti-submarine drills in five years on Friday, after North Korea renewed missile tests this week in an apparent response to bilateral training by South Korean and U.S. forces.
The North’s recent five missiles launch...

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Japan Wrestling Legend Antonio Inoki Dies At 79

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CNA
 
Flamboyant Japanese professional wrestler turned politician Antonio Inoki died on Saturday (Oct 1) aged 79, local media reported.
Public broadcaster NHK said that he died of heart failure.
Standing 1.9m tall, Inoki was a pioneer of mixed martial arts in Japan, and shot to fame in 1976 for t...

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Indonesia-Japan Home Affairs Ministers Talk of Bilateral Ties

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TEMPO
 
Indonesia’s Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian met with his Japanese counterpart Minoru Terada in Tokyo today, September 28, 2022, to discuss bilateral cooperation in various sectors under the management of the two ministries.
“This includes governance, population administration, flo...

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Japan To Set Inbound Tourism Spending Target Of Over 5 Trln Yen A Year

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REUTERS
 
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to announce a target of inbound tourism spending of more than 5 trillion yen ($34.65 billion) a year in a policy speech at the opening of parliament next week, Jiji news agency reported on Thursday.
In 2019, Japan recorded inbound tourism s...

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China Ships Enter Japan Waters Near Senkakus, Day Before Key Anniv.

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KYODO NEWS
 
Three Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japan's territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands on Wednesday and stayed for more than eight hours, a day before the 50th anniversary of the normalization of the countries' diplomatic ties.
The Japan Coast Guard said the intrusion, the fir...

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