JAPAN TODAY
 
Since the age of seven, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with a mission: ensuring that the horrors of nuclear war do not fade from memory with the passage of time.
Aged 12 now, Shun has convey...

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NIPPON
 
An annual Japanese Self-Defense Forces review ceremony will no longer be held in principle due to mounting SDF duties in an increasingly severe security environment, according to the Defense Ministry.
On Wednesday, the ministry said that it has become difficult to continue the event, whi...

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RFI
 
Japan's weather office on Thursday lifted a tsunami advisory imposed a day earlier after Russia's Far East was rocked by one of the strongest earthquakes on record.
"There is currently no coastal area for which tsunami warnings or advisories are in force," the Japan Meteorological Agency (J...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Demand for rice in Japan in the year through June was 7.11 million tons, 380,000 tons more than initial government projections made last year, the farm ministry said Wednesday.
With 6.79 million tons of rice produced in 2024, it marks the third consecutive year that demand has excee...

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NIPPON
 
The temperature soared to 41.2 degrees Celsius in the western Japan city of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, around 2:39 p.m. on Wednesday, setting a new national record high, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
The previous record was 41.1 degrees, set in the eastern city of Kumagaya,...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Towns, villages and nuclear reactors were evacuated and airports shut while office workers rushed to higher floors in coastal cities as Japan came under the threat of tsunamis Wednesday following a massive earthquake in the Russian Far East.
The country was prepared but on edge, wit...

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LIVER POOL FC
 
Liverpool’s players will wear unique, special-edition shirts for Wednesday’s pre-season fixture with Yokohama F. Marinos in Japan.
Created alongside the club’s official publication partner, Kodansha, the Reds’ jerseys for the game at Nissan Stadium will include names and numbers o...

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BANGLADESH PRATIDIN
 
Japan has adopted a basic policy to implement a new residency qualification system for foreign workers, set to begin in April 2027. The move aims to replace the controversial technical intern training program and attract skilled labor from abroad through structured skill dev...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japanese police on Monday renewed calls for information about a French woman who disappeared seven years ago during a trip to a tourist spot north of Tokyo.
Officers distributed flyers around Tobu Nikko Station and JR Nikko Station in Tochigi Prefecture, seeking details on the wherea...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Police have arrested a 24-year-old Vietnamese man on suspicion of murdering a woman at a house in the city of Imari, Saga Prefecture.
In the incident, which occurred on Saturday, 40-year-old Japanese language instructor Maiko Mukumoto, a resident of the house, and her mother were st...

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