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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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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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