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Mosques in Japan harassed in wake of hostage crisis

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JAPAN TIMES
 
At least six mosques and a Muslim organization in Japan have received threats since the hostage crisis that saw two Japanese men killed by the Islamic State militant group.
 
There are between 70 and 80 mosques in Japan, according to the Tokyo-based Japan Muslim Association. Among 1...

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A Weird Gundam Robot appeared in Philippines

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JAPANESE STATION
 
A photograph of the statue of Gundam found in Jed's Island Resort is located in Bulacan, the Philippines has been circulating online recently.
 
The statue was made by the RX-78-2 Gundam model, which was first seen in the original TV series Mobile Suit Gundam. Compared with tho...

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IBM’s Watson Turns Japanese and Moves Into Robots

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NY TIMES
 
IBM and SoftBank Telecom have agreed to bring the technology behind Watson — the IBM computer that won the television game show “Jeopardy!” — into Japan.
 
It is a significant technological achievement, since Watson’s question-and-answer capabilities had to be adapted from the English-...

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Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Express will be a bullet train in Japan

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THE JAPAN TIMES
 
West Japan Railway Co. is launching a bullet train Saturday decorated with images of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter area that opened last July at Universal Studios Japan in the city of Osaka.
 
The Harry Potter train will run on JR West’s Sanyo Shinkansen Line and Kyushu Ra...

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In Japan, women splurge on Valentine's Day gifts for men — not the other way around

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BUSINESS INSIDER
 
Japanese women jostled feverishly for elbow room at stores on Friday to buy Valentine's Day chocolates for the men in their lives -- guys who do sweet nothing in return.
 
While the ladies splurge on the object of their desire -- as well as friends, colleagues and bosses -- men...

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Japan Gets Ready to Fight

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BLOOMBERG
 
Japan’s shock, grief, and anger over the recent beheadings of two of its citizens by Islamic State has drawn into sharp focus the country’s ambivalence about the use of its military to protect its citizens and its interests. For decades, Japan was bound by its 1947 constitution to mob...

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Japan Has More Car Chargers Than Gas Stations

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BLOOMBERG
 
That surprising discovery comes from Nissan Motor Co., which reported that the number of power points in Japan, including fast-chargers and those in homes, has surged to 40,000, surpassing the nation’s 34,000 gas stations.
 
The figure shows that in the relatively brief time since ele...

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JAXA: Hayabusa2 flying well

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NEWS ON JAPAN
 
Japan's space agency says its asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 is flying well after the launch in early December.
Officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency explained the current status of the probe's flight and its equipment during a news conference on Wednesday.
The official...

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Japan: 'We will never, never forgive' ISIS for apparent beheading

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CNN
 
He ventured to Syria to tell the stories of lives torn apart by war.
 
But in doing so, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto suffered his own gruesome fate -- apparently becoming the latest foreigner to be decapitated by ISIS.
 
A newly distributed video from ISIS appears to show the beheaded bod...

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Japan's new military aims after hostage crisis

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DW.DE
 
"Hate is not an undertaking for men… my Arab brothers taught me this." This was Kenji Goto's message on Twitter, which he wrote four years ago, and which was shared over ten thousand times on Monday in Japan. Twitter users reposted the message in order to share their condolences for the f...

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