NIPPON
 
The Japanese government Tuesday announced a system to support a new regional cooperation framework beyond prefectural boundaries.
The central government plans to provide grants and subsidies to help local governments and businesses pursue regional development initiatives, such as industr...

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NHK
 
Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru inspected an anti-disaster drill on Disaster Prevention Day on Monday.
The drill was conducted based on the scenario that a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck with an intensity of upper six on the Japanese scale of zero to seven.
Ishiba visited a site in ...

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KYODO NEWS
 
A woman was killed on Sunday in a crash during a university glider competition in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, local police said.
Police found the pilot, a woman believed to be in her 20s, at the crash site near the Tone River in Kumagaya after receiving an emergency call from a w...

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NIPPON
 
Japan logged its hottest summer ever this year, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday.
The country's average temperature in June-August was 2.36 degrees Celsius higher than the 30-year average through 2020 for the three-month period, hitting the highest figure on record dating to 1...

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NHK
 
Japan's agriculture minister says if his ministry's projections hold true, a substantial amount of new rice will enter the market, leading to stable retail prices.
Koizumi Shinjiro made the remark in an NHK debate program on Sunday.
The agriculture ministry announced on Friday that as of Au...

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MEMO
 
Japan will provide the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) with $5.5 million for a project to improve living conditions in Syria, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, Anadolu reports.
On Aug. 12, Japan and UN-Habitat signed an aid plan focused on rebuilding essential infrastructure ...

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RRI
 
The Indonesian Ministry of Culture has met with Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Toshiko Abe, to discuss a repatriation protocol for the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in Indonesia during World War II. 
The meeting, which took place on Friday d...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
The number of babies born in January-June fell 3.1% from a year earlier to 339,280 in Japan, hitting a new record low for the first half, the health ministry said Friday.
The January-June figure, including babies born to foreign nationals living in Japan and Japanese nationals livin...

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AP NEWS
 
The leaders of India and Japan agreed Friday to bolster economic ties while also boosting cooperation in areas including clean energy and defense, as the two Asian powers face common challenges such as China’s growing influence and U.S. tariffs.
Following their summit in Tokyo, Indian P...

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NIPPON
 
Japan's Ministry of Defense said Friday that it will ask for a record budget of 8,845.4 billion yen for fiscal 2026 starting next April.
The ministry will request 128.7 billion yen for acquiring many unmanned vehicles to build in fiscal 2027 the multilayer coastal defense system Shield, ...

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