JAPAN TODAY
 
With financial incentives, free services and benefits on the horizon, Japan has parents with children covered from birth to high school.
If you’re thinking of having children, are pregnant, or already have little and not-so-little ones around the home, check out our overview of the ...

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TEMPO
 
After previously holding exhibitions themed around the culture and history of Srivijaya in December 2023 and Majapahit in February 2024, the Indonesia Embassy in Tokyo once again showcases the diversity of Indonesian culture in Japan through an exhibition titled "Batanghari River in Histo...

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NATIONAL POST
 
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome has a 'terrifying' mortality rate of 30 per cent, expert says
Japan is seeing a record-breaking rise of a “flesh-eating bacteria” that can kill people within 48 hours, prompting a closer look at the deadly disease.
Cases of streptococcal toxic sh...

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CNA
 
Japan's tourism chief said on Thursday (Jun 20) its ambitious goal of luring 60 million foreign tourists a year - more than double the current level - is well within reach, despite surging overtourism concerns.
Japan last year attracted over 25 million tourists from abroad, in part buoyed b...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike and her biggest rival, opposition-backed lawmaker Renho, clashed over how to tackle the declining birthrate as they finally unveiled their pledges for next month's gubernatorial election on Tuesday, just two days before official campaigning starts.
Koike, a co...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Heavy rain battered wide areas of Japan on Tuesday, disrupting bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka and prompting the weather agency to urge caution for landslides and floods.
An eastward-moving front and a low-pressure system on the Pacific Ocean side of the Japanese archip...

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NIPPON
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is seen visiting Germany in July for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, informed sources said Tuesday.
The trip is aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation in economic security, including protecting supply chains for critical minerals and semicon...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
"Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window," directed by Japan's Shinnosuke Yakuwa, received an award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France on Saturday.
The Paul Grimault Award, a special award for a feature film, was given to the Japanese work at the film fe...

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ARAB NEWS
 
The custom of Father’s Day in Japan has a unique history and has developed in its own way.
Many people give red carnations to their mothers for Mother’s Day. Meanwhile, sunflowers have been becoming a popular gift for Father’s Day in recent years. But the situation had been different ...

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NIPPON
 
A Japanese research team has succeeded in reaccelerating muons, a type of elementary particle, after artificially cooling them, in the first such breakthrough in the world.
The achievement is expected to help better re-examine the standard theory of physics that explains the movements of...

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