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Japan To Consider Delaying Defense Spending Tax Increase To 2025 Or Beyond
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JAPAN TODAY
The Japanese government is looking into putting off a tax increase to fund extra defense spending by a year to 2025, a ruling party source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters said on Monday.
The coalition government agreed in December to raise key taxes to increase the ...
The Japanese government is looking into putting off a tax increase to fund extra defense spending by a year to 2025, a ruling party source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters said on Monday.
The coalition government agreed in December to raise key taxes to increase the ...
- June 13, 2023
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Japan Nuclear Plant Conducts Tests Before Discharging Treated Radioactive Wastewater Into Sea
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AP NEWS
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began tests on Monday of newly constructed facilities for discharging treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, a plan strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries.
The tests at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle...
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began tests on Monday of newly constructed facilities for discharging treated radioactive wastewater into the sea, a plan strongly opposed by local fishing communities and neighboring countries.
The tests at the Fukushima Daiichi nucle...
- June 13, 2023
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The Women Fighting Japan’s Sexual Violence Stigma
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BBC
Rina Gonoi had two dreams. To be a soldier, and to compete in the Olympics as a judo player.
She started judo when she was four years old, trained by her brother, and was 11 when she first saw soldiers in action.
The armed forces, known in Japan as the Self-Defence Forces (SDF), had helped...
Rina Gonoi had two dreams. To be a soldier, and to compete in the Olympics as a judo player.
She started judo when she was four years old, trained by her brother, and was 11 when she first saw soldiers in action.
The armed forces, known in Japan as the Self-Defence Forces (SDF), had helped...
- June 13, 2023
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Suspicious Delivery Halts Japan Court Preparations To Try Abe Shooter
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KYODO NEWS
A suspicious box was delivered Monday to a Japanese court scheduled to try the man indicted for murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prompting visitors to evacuate and leading to the cancellation of trial preparations planned for the day.
The cardboard box set off a metal dete...
A suspicious box was delivered Monday to a Japanese court scheduled to try the man indicted for murdering former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, prompting visitors to evacuate and leading to the cancellation of trial preparations planned for the day.
The cardboard box set off a metal dete...
- June 13, 2023
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Wrestling Start-Up AEW Tags Up With New Japan In Challenge To WWE Behemoth
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CNA
U.S. grappling start-up All Elite Wrestling (AEW) may need its Japanese partner to help fill London's 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium for a show in August, its billionaire founder said, looking to wrest market share from its newly beefed-up rival.
The Wembley show is on pace to be one of the bi...
U.S. grappling start-up All Elite Wrestling (AEW) may need its Japanese partner to help fill London's 90,000-seat Wembley Stadium for a show in August, its billionaire founder said, looking to wrest market share from its newly beefed-up rival.
The Wembley show is on pace to be one of the bi...
- June 12, 2023
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Possible Jets Collision At Tokyo's Haneda Airport
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NHK
Japan's transport ministry says two passenger jets appear to have collided near a taxiway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday.
Footage from an NHK camera shows the EVA Air and Thai Airways aircraft on the runway.
Part of the wing of the Thai Airways plane looks to be broken, and what appe...
Japan's transport ministry says two passenger jets appear to have collided near a taxiway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday.
Footage from an NHK camera shows the EVA Air and Thai Airways aircraft on the runway.
Part of the wing of the Thai Airways plane looks to be broken, and what appe...
- June 12, 2023
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Japan’s Foreign Worker Program Is Ripe For Reform
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EAST ASIA FORUM
In an interim report released in May 2023, the Japanese government’s expert panel on foreign worker integration recommended abolishing the Technical Intern Training Program.
In its place, the panel proposed a new system focused on securing an adequate labour force for Japan whil...
In an interim report released in May 2023, the Japanese government’s expert panel on foreign worker integration recommended abolishing the Technical Intern Training Program.
In its place, the panel proposed a new system focused on securing an adequate labour force for Japan whil...
- June 11, 2023
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M6.2 Quake Hits Hokkaido
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JAPAN TODAY
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Sunday, the weather agency said, with no tsunami warning issued.
The quake registered a lower 5 on the country's seismic intensity scale of 7 in Chitose and other parts on th...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 struck off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Sunday, the weather agency said, with no tsunami warning issued.
The quake registered a lower 5 on the country's seismic intensity scale of 7 in Chitose and other parts on th...
- June 11, 2023
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Japan Aims To Refocus Its Foreign Aid On Maritime And Economic Security And National Interests
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AP NEWS
Japan approved a major revision to its development aid policy Friday to focus on maritime and economic security and its national interests while helping developing nations overcome compound challenges amid China’s growing global influence.
The revision to the Development Cooperation Cha...
Japan approved a major revision to its development aid policy Friday to focus on maritime and economic security and its national interests while helping developing nations overcome compound challenges amid China’s growing global influence.
The revision to the Development Cooperation Cha...
- June 9, 2023
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Memorial Service Marks 22 Years Since Fatal Stabbing Rampage At Ikeda School
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JAPAN TODAY
A memorial service was held Thursday to mark the 22nd anniversary of a stabbing rampage at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, that left eight children dead.
Relatives, teachers and students attended the ceremony at Ikeda Elementary School to remember the tragedy and pl...
A memorial service was held Thursday to mark the 22nd anniversary of a stabbing rampage at an elementary school in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, that left eight children dead.
Relatives, teachers and students attended the ceremony at Ikeda Elementary School to remember the tragedy and pl...
- June 8, 2023
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