NIPPON
 
The 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka attracted a total of 25,578,986 visitors during its 184-day run through Monday.
According to the data released by the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, the event’s organizer, on Tuesday, 207,889 people visited th...

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FRANCE 24
 
Coach Hajime Moriyasu said Japan's first win over Brazil had been decades in the making and backed his players to use it as a springboard to World Cup success.
Japan stunned Brazil with three second-half goals to claim a 3-2 friendly victory in Tokyo on Tuesday, their first win over t...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
At hotels in Japan, the bathing facilities usually fall into two broad categories. There might be a traditional setup, with compact shower booths where you wash off before entering a large communal tub to soak in, or you could have a more modern full-size in-room shower, often as pa...

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NHK
 
The organizer of the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, western Japan, says the number of ticketed visitors to the event that ran for six months totaled more than 25.57 million.
The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition said on Tuesday, one day after the Expo closed, that the number of tic...

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NIPPON
 
The Diet, Japan's parliament, will elect a new prime minister to replace Shigeru Ishiba on Oct. 21, a senior official at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Tuesday.
Yoshihiko Isozaki, the LDP's Diet affairs chief in the House of Councillors, told his counterpart from the opposition...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The internet has become the main source of daily news in Japan, overtaking commercial television for the first time, a survey by the Japan Press Research Institute has shown.
When asked about which news source they use on a daily basis, a question added in fiscal 2018, 46.5% of resp...

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NHK
 
 
Strong Typhoon Nakri was approaching southern parts of Japan's Izu Islands on Monday morning, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the island chain that was recently hit by another storm.
As of Monday morning, the islands of Hachijojima and Aogashima were in the storm zone of Nakri.
Ha...

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ANTARA NEWS
 
Culture Minister Fadli Zon emphasized the importance of strengthening research and studies on Indonesian culture in Osaka, Japan, noting it serves as a foundation for advancing global knowledge and international cooperation.
During his visit to the National Museum of Ethnology (Minp...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The Japanese government will specify the need to promote domestic development of artificial intelligence in an upcoming strategy, official sources said Sunday, as it seeks to avoid overdependence on foreign AI for national security.
An overview of the country's basic AI plan being c...

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NHK
 
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has arrested a British national and a US national on suspicion of smuggling about 17 kilograms of stimulant drugs into Japan.
The suspects are 24-year-old British citizen Kim Tung Nguyen and US citizen Jason Raymond Scott, who is 25 years old. They a...

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