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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REUTERS
 
 
North Korea's World Cup qualifier against Japan that was scheduled to be held in Pyongyang next week has been called off, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Friday.
According to a report from Kyodo News, North Korea, which has no formal diplomatic relations with Tokyo, dec...

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CNN
 
 
Japan has ended its negative interest rate policy, marking a historic shift away from an aggressive monetary easing program that was implemented years ago to fight chronic deflation.
As part of the decision, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years, lif...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
For Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted to North Korea in the 1970s at age 13, her "miraculous" meeting a decade ago with Megumi's own daughter in Mongolia was a delight but also a painful reminder of the separation that continues to this day.
Although the 88-year-old Y...

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KYODO NEWS
 
The Japanese Society of Gender Identity Disorder, a body promoting transgender studies, has decided to drop "disorder" from its name based on the latest understanding of people with gender identities differing from those assigned at birth.
The change, announced Sunday at its general ...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over Komatsu City in Ishikawa Prefecture on Saturday, to celebrate the start of a shinkansen bullet train service between Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, and Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture -- a new extended route of the ...

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KYODO NEWS
 
The Japanese government plans to expand the scope of foreign university students eligible for its scholarships from April to provide more academic opportunities to children of the country's growing number of foreign workers, according to officials.
The education ministry is set to in...

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