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Japan Tight-Lipped On Report Of Meeting With North Korea In Mongolia

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RFA
 
 
South Korean media reported that Japanese and North Korean representatives met in secret in Mongolia last month.
The Japanese government declined to comment on a South Korean media report that officials from Japan and North Korea had a secret meeting in Mongolia last month, saying it was ...

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Japan Enacts Legislation on Foreign Worker Training

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Japan’s parliament enacted legislation on Friday to create a new skill development program for foreign workers to ease serious labor shortages in the country.
The government plans to introduce the program as early as 2027 to replace the current technical intern training scheme for fo...

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Japan Enacts Laws For New Foreign Worker Scheme Amid Labor Crisis

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan's parliament on Friday enacted revised laws to replace a controversy-plagued foreign trainee program with a new system that encourages workers from abroad to stay longer, as authorities look to address the serious labor shortage created by the country's demographic crisis.
The ...

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Japan To Put Off Agreement On Imperial Family Measures

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The ruling and opposition parties are unlikely to reach an agreement during the current parliamentary session over measures to secure a sufficient number of imperial family members, sources said Wednesday.
This is mainly because the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of...

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Near-Finished Japan Condo Blocking Mount Fuji To Be Razed

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CNA
 
A Japanese property developer has decided to demolish a near-complete, 10-storey condominium in Tokyo after pushback from neighbours who said it blocked a view of Mount Fuji.
The company Sekisui House said in a statement late on Tuesday (Jun 11) that it had "voluntarily decided to discontin...

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Singapore Diplomat Back In Japan For Questioning On Alleged Voyeurism

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KYODO NEWS
 
A former counselor at the Singapore Embassy returned to Japan in June to be questioned by police over allegations he secretly took images of a naked schoolboy at a public bath in Tokyo, police said Thursday.
Sim Siong Chye, a 55-year-old former counselor who had been asked by police ...

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Side Job Fraud Believed To Have Taken ¥1.9 Billion From 8,600 Victims

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Tokyo police have arrested 26 people in a side job fraud case in which a total of ¥1.91 billion or more is believed to have been taken from about 8,600 victims across Japan.
The Metropolitan Police Department has also searched a total of 11 locations in Tokyo and four other prefectu...

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‘Sky Castle,’ Korean High Society Drama Hit, to Be Remade in Japan

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VARIETY
 
 
“Sky Castle,” one of the most iconic Korean TV drama series of recent years, is to be remade by TV Asahi in Japan.
The move follows the signing of a cooperation agreement between Korean content powerhouse SLL (previously known as JTBC Studios) and TV Asahi just last month. The two com...

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US Calls For Japan's Help To Replenish Missile Inventory

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HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
 
The United States needs Japan's help to quickly replenish missile inventory and repair warships as conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine continue and Washington seeks to keep its deterrence credible in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. ambassador to Japan said.
"It is clear that...

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Japanese With Lack Of Sleep Reduced By Half From 25 Years Ago

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The proportion of Japanese working adults who sleep five hours or less a day stood at 11.5%, down by roughly half from 25 years ago, according to a recent survey by Citizen Watch.
The share of such people stood at 22.8% in the 1999 survey.
The health ministry recommends at least six...

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