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Japan, Foreign Forces Discuss Disaster Countermeasures For Olympics

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THE MAINICHI
 
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force on Wednesday discussed disaster countermeasures with foreign forces ahead of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next summer.
The meeting was held at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo with logistics personnel from 25 countries, includin...

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Japan's ANA Launches Direct Flight Between Chennai And Tokyo

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INDIA TODAY
 
Chennai in southern India is a popular city for Japanese companies. The reason is that there is an industrial complex area and that it is a major area for business in south India. Chennai is one of those Indian cities with a rapidly developing infrastructure.
Japan's airline "All Ni...

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US Did Not Request Five-Fold Increase For Stationing Troops In Japan, Nation’s Defense Minister Says

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STRIPES
 
TOKYO — Japan’s government on Sunday denied a report it had been asked to fork over five times as much as it now pays to support United States forces stationed in the country.
Kyodo News reported Saturday that Japan had rejected a request for the funding increase that was delivered by J...

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Trump Makes Japan An Offer It Can’t Refuse

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NEW REPUBLIC
 
The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.
NATO has faced plenty of existential scares in the era of President Donald Trump, but now the United States’ long-standing allies in East Asia hav...

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Gov't Says It Is Safe To Release Contaminated Fukushima Water Into Ocean

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Japan's industry ministry said Monday it would be safe to release water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean, stressing that the health risk to humans would be "significantly small."
Discharging the water into the Pacific Ocean over the course of a y...

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Japanese Actress Erika Sawajiri Arrested For Suspected Drug Possession

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STRAITS TIMES
 
TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japanese actress Erika Sawajiri, famous for her role in 2005 drama 1 Litre Of Tears, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs, NHK reported on Saturday (Nov 16) citing unnamed sources.
The 33-year-old actress, who this year starred in a TV adaption of T...

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Former Japanese Princess Gives Birth To Boy

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Ayako Moriya, the third daughter of the late Prince Takamado and now a commoner, has given birth to a boy, her first child, the Imperial Household Agency said Sunday.
She gave birth at Aiiku Hospital in Tokyo at around 7 a.m. Sunday, and both the mother and the child are in good con...

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In Japan’s Vanishing Rural Towns, Newcomers Are Wanted

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CITY LAB
 
On a recent afternoon in the rural Japanese town of Kanna-machi, all seemed well. Children splashed in the town’s namesake river; their parents relaxed nearby at a bankside summer beer garden. A gaggle of laughing teenagers in muddy uniforms strolled home along the town’s main road aft...

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Tokyo's Yamanote Line Partially Shutting Down Saturday For Station Construction

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Thanks to snarled traffic, trains are by far the best way to get around Tokyo, and you can hit up the vast majority of the downtown sights using just one line. The JR Yamanote line forms a loop around the city center, and can take you to the high-fashion boutiques of Ginza, ...

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Blood-Red Evangelion Hot Spring Bath To Open In Japan For Fun, Relaxing Terror

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SORA NEWS
 
East Japan’s premier hot spring town, the real-world Tokyo-3, wants you to bathe in LCL.
With the chill in the air getting increasingly chilly, we’ve been spending more and more time looking for hot springs to warm ourselves up in. Japan is spoiled for choice on that front, though, si...

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