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DSEI Japan 2023: KHI Unveils New Anti-Ship Missile

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NAVAL NEWS
 
At DSEI Japan 2023, Kawasaki Heavy Industry (KHI) unveiled a new type of stealthy anti-ship missile called “Island defense anti-ship missile (島嶼防衛用新対艦誘導弾 in Japanese)”.
Island defense anti-ship missile (島嶼防衛用新対艦誘導弾)
Yoshihiro Inaba story with additional reportin...

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How to Get Kicked Out of Parliament: Livestream Instead of Legislating

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NEW YORK TIMES
 
The upper house of Japan’s Parliament almost unanimously voted to expel an eccentric YouTuber who won a seat last year. The reason: He never showed up for work.
Since he was elected to Japan’s Parliament in July, Yoshikazu Higashitani has spread celebrity gossip on his YouTube ch...

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The SVB Crisis May Prompt The Bank Of Japan To Delay Policy Changes, Says Former Board Member

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CNBC
 
Key PointsJapan’s central bank could delay any changes to its monetary policy in light of the turmoil that the Silicon Valley Bank crisis triggered in financial markets, Nomura Research Institute economist Takahide Kiuchi, who served on the Bank of Japan’s policy board from 2012 to 2017, t...

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South Korea Pres. Hopes To Move Forward With Japan, Not Focus On Past

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KYODO NEWS
 
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said Wednesday he hopes to cooperate with Japan and look "toward the future" after his government proposed a solution aimed at settling a long-running wartime labor compensation dispute with its neighbor.
South Korea "will faithfully implement" th...

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Japan, Britain, Italy Defence Ministers To Meet In Tokyo This Week

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SWISS INFO
 
Britain and Italy's defence chiefs will visit Japan this week to hold meetings with their local counterpart, Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada, Japan said on Tuesday.
The three nations announced in December the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) venture to develop by 2035 a next-gener...

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Masatoshi Ito, 98, the King of Convenience Stores in Japan, Dies

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NEW YORK TIMES
 
He introduced the American chain 7-Eleven to the country, covering the landscape with thousands of outlets and starting a retail revolution there.
Masatoshi Ito, who built a Japanese retail empire and helped fundamentally change the country’s consumer culture with the introductio...

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Iwao Hakamada: Japan Retrial For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate

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BBC
 
A Japanese man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been granted a retrial.
Iwao Hakamada, now 87, is the world's longest-serving death row inmate, according to Amnesty International.
He was sentenced to death in 1968 for murdering his boss, the man's wife and their two childr...

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Ex-Head Of Inn With Bacteria Exceeding Limit Dies In Apparent Suicide

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KYODO NEWS
 
The former head of the operator of a southwestern Japan inn, who came under fire for only changing hot spring bathwater twice a year, allowing legionella bacteria to proliferate beyond the allowable limit, has died in a suspected suicide, police said Sunday.
Makoto Yamada, 70, was fo...

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Japan Further Relaxes Mask Rules Amid Easing Of COVID-19 Guidelines

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CNA
 
The smiles and screams at Tokyo Disneyland may be more obvious on Monday (Mar 13) as the amusement park and much of Japan relax face mask norms that have defined the three-year COVID-19 pandemic.
Disney park operator Oriental Land, East Japan Railway and cinema operator Toho are among the m...

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Panel Refuses To Rule Out COVID Vaccine As Cause Of Woman's Death

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ASAHI SHINBUN
 
For the first time, a panel of experts advising the health ministry has not ruled out the possibility that a COVID-19 vaccine may have contributed to a 42-year-old woman's death in November 2022.
The panel has been assessing the causal relationship between the COVID-19 vaccine and...

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