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Japan Reopens Embassy In Kyiv After 7-Month Closure Amid Russia War

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan reopened its embassy in Kyiv on Wednesday following a seven-month closure due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said, as the security situation has improved.
Staff at the embassy had been transferred to a temporary liaison office set up in the western city o...

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Myanmar Jails Japanese Filmmaker For Sedition

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REUTERS
 
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese documentary filmmaker to 10 years in prison for violating sedition and communications laws, a Japanese foreign ministry official said on Thursday.
Toru Kubota, 26, was arrested in July at a protest in Myanmar's main city of Yang...

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Japan's National Soccer Team Heads Into The Unknown In Qatar

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The Japanese soccer team's final two games against the United States and Ecuador last month in preparation for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar were supposed to determine who should be part of manager Hajime Moriyasu’s squad. Instead, the results produced more questions than ans...

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North Korea Conducts Longest-Range Missile Test Yet Over Japan

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REUTERS
 
Missile flies over Japan for first time since 2017Seoul says it appears to have been intermediate-range missileJapan issues shelter warning, stops some trainsTest condemned by U.S., South Korea, Japan
SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missil...

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North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan Prompting Warnings For Residents To Shelter

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THE GUARDIAN
 
Launch is the first time the North has apparently sent a missile over Japanese territory since 2017
North Korea has launched a intermediate-range ballistic missile over northern Japan for the first time in five years, prompting the government to urge people to shelter from falling ...

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South Korean And Japanese Defense Stocks Are Rallying After North Korea Fired A Missile Over Japan

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CNBC
 
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 In South Korea, shares of Hanwha Aerospace, an aircraft engine manufacturer, rose more than 3% in the morning session, while Korea Aerospace, which also develops fighter jets, jumped more than 4%.Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries gained more than 3% and Hosoya Pyro-Engineerin...

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Japan's Kishida Vows To Regain Trust In Church Controversy

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CNA
 
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday (Oct 3) that he will humbly listen to people’s “harsh voices” criticising his governing party’s cozy ties to the ultra-conservative Unification Church and help victims of its allegedly fraudulent businesses and huge donation collection.
Ki...

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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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