JAPAN TIMES
 
Transport operators are busy preparing for an influx of visitors from overseas during the 2020 Tokyo Games, with some accelerating the installation of equipment to show information in multiple languages and others hiring new staff to better welcome foreign tourists.
East Japan Railw...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
SAITAMA — Workers at one poultry farm have had their hands full spraying water on chickens to keep them cool this summer, as scorching heat continues across Japan.
The temperature inside Shinohara Yokeijo egg farm’s poultry houses reach 40 C on some mornings, according to the far...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Shining Monday initiative sounds great for anyone who likes to party on Sunday night, or just would rather not be working on Monday morning.
Here’s a strange aspect of adult life. Even though Sunday is a day off for most people, Sunday night often is often the low point, in terms of...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Formerly one of the biggest advertisers in Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company ceased running TV ads in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
 
Now it has returned to television screens in the Japanese capital with a new commercial, which conveys a message of household s...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - A university in Tokyo decided Monday it will dismiss two former coaches of its American football team over a dangerous late tackle by one of its players during an intercollegiate game in May that injured an opposing player.
Nihon University's decision comes after the governi...

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BBC
 
A powerful storm has hit central and western Japan, injuring at least 21 people and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes.
Typhoon Jongdari (or "skylark" in Korean) brought torrential rain and winds of up to 180km/h (110mph).
It made landfall on the country's main island, Honshu, at 0...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
 
 “Life is park!” proclaims Brutus magazine.
The English isn’t good but the sentiment is. A veritable parkland is Japan. Wikipedia lists 34 national and 56 quasi-national parks. With these Brutus is not concerned. It celebrates the less imposing municipal park, which may be as spac...

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ROCKET NEWS
 
Number of executions now equals that of Tokyo subway gas attack deaths.
Japan’s Ministry of Justice has announced that on the morning of July 26 six members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, the organization behind the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack, were executed. As is customary in Japan, t...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO - Five people died and around 40 were injured Thursday after a fire broke out at a construction site in suburban Tokyo and smoke engulfed workers.
One of the five died after failing to escape from the basement of the building that was under construction in the city of Tama. Of...

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NEWS ON JAPAN
 
A typhoon moving over the Pacific Ocean south of Japan could approach and make landfall on the country's main island of Honshu on the weekend, the weather agency said Wednesday.
As of 9 a.m., Typhoon Jongdari was traveling north-northwest near Okinotori Island with an atmospheric...

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