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A New Exhibition Aims To Bring Yoko Ono's Art Out Of John Lennon's Shadow

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JAPAN TODAY
 
Before there was John and Yoko — and after — there was just Yoko Ono.
The Japanese-American artist became a global celebrity through her marriage to John Lennon, her partner for more than a decade until his murder in 1980, as well as her collaborator on peace-protest “bed-ins” and i...

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Sakura Cherry Blossoms Forecast to Bloom on March 17 in Tokyo

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JAPAN NEWS
 
Someiyoshino sakura cherry blossoms are expected to bloom March 16 in Fukuoka as the earliest bloom date this spring, followed by central Tokyo on March 17, according to a weather information company.
Weathernews Inc., based in Chiba, announced Thursday that warmer-than-usual tempera...

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Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida seeks summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

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FINANCIAL TIMES
 
Tokyo hopes diplomatic breakthrough will boost premier’s domestic popularity
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is intensifying efforts to meet Kim Jong Un, as he pushes for a diplomatic breakthrough with the North Korean leader in a bid to save his faltering premiership.
The ...

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Genetically Modified Pigs Created For Organ Transplants In Japan

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ASIA NEWS
 
The team now plans to increase the number of pigs for its research and proceed with studying the xenotransplantation of porcine organs into lab monkeys.
Genetically modified pigs have been created for the purpose of performing organ transplants into humans, a research team announced T...

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Japan's Currency Diplomat Says Ready To Act As Needed Amid Yen's Fall

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KYODO  NEWS
 
Japan's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said Wednesday the yen's fall has been "very rapid" and driven in part by speculative moves, warning the government will respond "appropriately" if required.
The remarks came after the U.S. dollar hit a three-month high of 150.88 yen overni...

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Japan To Launch Digital Nomad Visa

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ITIJ
 
The Japanese government has announced a new digital nomad visa for workers earning at least US$68,200 per year The visa is due to launch at the end of March, and will allow remote workers from 49 countries to stay in Japan for up to six months.
Workers must be able to prove that they earn ...

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Japan PM Vows To Tackle Discrimination In Rebuke Of LDP Lawmaker

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has promised to address discrimination against ethnic and sexual minorities whose human rights have been abused in recent years in an apparent admonishment of an outspoken lawmaker within his Liberal Democratic Party.
"As prime minister, I will d...

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Japan Postpones Next-Gen Rocket Launch Due to Weather

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VOA NEWS
 
Japan's space agency on Tuesday postponed the launch of its next-generation rocket that had been planned for this week due to expected bad weather, after two previous attempts ended in failure.
The H3 rocket had been scheduled to lift off Thursday from the southern island of Tanegashim...

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Japanese Team Creates Miniaturized Human Placentas

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JAPAN TIMES
 
A Japanese research team said Thursday that it has become the world's first to create miniaturized organs closely resembling the human placenta in structure and functions.
The team, including researchers of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, expects that the human placenta organoi...

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Foreign Firefighters Stifled By Japan Gov't Bureaucratic Smoke Screen

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KYODO NEWS
 
Despite being very few in number, some foreign-born firefighters are employed in Japan, but their nationality is proving a conundrum due to opaque restrictions placed on what duties non-Japanese public servants can carry out.
The ambiguous rules have left some of these firefighters a...

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