CNA
 
Japan saw a slight decline in visitors in May from the previous month, when a rush of tourists came to see the nation's famous cherry blossoms without COVID-19 restrictions, official data showed on Wednesday (Jun 21).
The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure came in just belo...

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BBC
 
Two nine-year-olds were among the 25,000 people forcibly sterilised in Japan under its post-World War Two eugenics law, a parliament report has revealed.
The law, in place for 48 years, forced people to undergo operations to prevent them having children deemed "inferior".
Many of them had p...

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KYODO NEWS
 
Japan ranked 125th of 146 countries on the gender gap rankings in 2023, the country's worst recorded result and the lowest in the East Asia and Pacific region, the World Economic Forum said Wednesday.
Equality campaigners criticized the outcome as a result of the Japanese government'...

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NIPPON
 
Japan's declaration that it is free of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been approved by the World Organization for Animal Health, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
The ministry is considering reviewing its sanitary control policy for poultry farms to reduce the number of chick...

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EAST ASIA FORUM
 
Last week Japan adopted its first ever space security blueprint aimed at better using space for defensive purposes.
This builds on the three new security documents released by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration in December 2022, in which it committed to doubling defen...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Japan agreed with Ukraine on Monday to establish a liaison system that will support the Eastern European country in its efforts to reconstruct areas severely damaged during the ongoing Russian invasion.
At a ceremony in Tokyo, reconstruction minister Hiromichi Watanabe and Oleksandr...

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ANTARA NEWS
 
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) received a state visit from Emperor of Japan Hironomiya Naruhito and Empress Masako Owada at the Bogor Presidential Palace, West Java, on Monday.
Emperor Naruhito and the Japanese delegation arrived at the Bogor Palace at around 10 a.m. loca...

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NHK
 
Japan's Emperor Naruhito has visited a facility for Indonesia's first subway system, which was built with support from Japan.
The Emperor visited the railway facility in Jakarta on Sunday, the second day of a week-long official trip to the country.
After putting on a safety helmet, he watch...

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JAPAN NEWS
 
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on Friday arrested actor Kento Nagayama, 34, on suspicion of violating the Cannabis Control Law, according to an individual involved in the investigation.
Nagayama is suspected of having cannabis at his apartment in Meguro Ward, Tokyo.
Agents ...

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KYODO NEWS
 
The approval rating for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet plunged to 40.8 percent, a Kyodo News poll showed Sunday, with many in the public wary of the government's push to expand the use of the national identification card, plagued with privacy concerns.
The support rating was ...

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