JAPAN TIMES
 
A man has died following an accident involving his suit jacket getting caught in an escalator at a station in Ibaraki Prefecture, police said Wednesday.
The staff of Mito Station found Mamoru Suzuki, a 72-year-old resident of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, collapsed but still consciou...

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BBC
 
A Japanese nappy maker has announced that it will stop producing diapers for babies in the country and, instead, focus on the market for adults.
 Oji Holdings is the latest firm to make such a shift in a rapidly ageing Japan, where birth rates are at a record low.
 Sales of adult nappies ou...

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KYODO NEWS
 
North Korea on Tuesday rejected any further contact or negotiations with Japan and said a summit meeting between its leader Kim Jong Un and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is not in its interest, according to the country's state-run media.
Kim Yo Jong, sister of the North Korea...

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AP NEWS
 
Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s developing with Britain and Italy to other countries, in the latest move away from the country’s postwar pacifist principles.
The contentious decision to allow international arms sales is ex...

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CNA
 
A Japanese drugmaker said on Monday (Mar 25) that 26 people had been hospitalised in relation to health supplements the company has recalled because of concerns over kidney problems.
The prescription-free supplements contain a type of yeast-fermented rice called "beni koji", which Kobayashi...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Tours of revamped public toilets in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward were launched earlier this month to dispel the traditional perception of the facilities as being dirty and smelly, giving visitors from home and abroad a unique lens with which to view the city.
A total of 17 public toilets ha...

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OLYMPICS
 
Double Olympic gold medallist Ohashi Yui does have one more Games in her after all.
The reigning women’s individual medley champion left it until the last day of the Japanese swimming trials to secure a quota at Paris 2024*. She touched the wall first in the women's 200m IM on Sunday (...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
 
FIFA has announced that a planned World Cup qualifier between Japan and North Korea will not take place, after North Korea withdrew its intention to host the match in Pyongyang.
The fourth match in the second Asian qualifying round for the 2026 World Cup was scheduled for March 26....

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HURRIYET DAILY NEWS
 
Japan is expected to discuss cooperating on technology with the AUKUS defense grouping at a summit in Washington next month, according to comments from a high-ranking U.S. diplomat published in Japanese media on Friday.
The United States, Australia and Britain established th...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Eight crew members perished, and two others remain unaccounted for after a South Korean chemical tanker capsized off the western Japanese city of Shimonoseki on Wednesday, a local coast guard office said.
The 870-ton Keoyoung Sun's crew radioed for help around 7:05 a.m., reporting th...

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