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Scorching heat expected in much of Japan: weather agency
Scorching heat expected in much of Japan: weather agency-
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Nieuws uit Japan
Laatste berichten en historisch nieuws uit Japan. Hoofdstad: Tokyo.
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Reizen
Departure tax revenue diverted to bear, sakura pest control | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Proceeds from Japan’s departure tax, tripled this summer to fund overtourism measures, are being funneled to projects including bear countermeas…
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VOX POPULI: As August fades, ‘The Glass Rabbit’ remains a timeless story | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
August is passing into memory.
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EDITORIAL: Liechtenstein shows succession to throne not limited to males | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A European nation will no longer limit hereditary succession to its throne to males.
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Japan’s ‘rabbit island’ has become symbolic of the overtourism plaguing the country
The bunny population has exploded since human visitors started arriving in the hundreds of thousands
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Four Teens Arrested After Stolen Ketchup Thrown at Woman in Tokyo
Four teenage boys have been arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of stealing ketchup and other goods from a supermarket before splashing the ketchup o…
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Celebs: Japan champions Miura, Kihara, who won hearts with grit and tears, to wed
Japanese ice-skating champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara, who won the hearts of many Japanese in a country where skating can top the news bu…
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UAE Fintech Fasset Reaches $1B Valuation After $68M Series C Round
Led by Japan's SBI Group, the funding round takes the stablecoin neobanking platform into unicorn territory.
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Politiek
Columbus City Hall hosts Japanese junior high students
COLUMBUS, Ind. - Columbus City Hall welcomed 18 students from Miyoshi-Minami Junior High School in Miyoshi, Japan, for a tour and a firsthand lo…
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Fasset hits $1 billion valuation after $68 million Series C
UAE-based fintech Fasset has raised $68 million in a Series C round led by Japan’s SBI Group and joined by Speedinvest, valuing...
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Politiek
Tibetan Community in Japan Holds 49th-Day Prayer Service to Commemorate Lobga Rangzen
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Extends Warmest Birthday Greetings and Prayers for Good Health to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Aichi Japanese language school used unqualified teachers | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A Justice Ministry-certified Japanese-language school in Aichi Prefecture relied on unqualified instructors for years despite sponsoring foreign…
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Maatschappij
Company told to pay a Vietnamese applicant after job offer pulled | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
The Tokyo District Court ordered a computer systems company to pay damages to a Vietnamese national after determining it had falsely told the jo…
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Gezondheid
Vietnam War photojournalist Bunyo Ishikawa dies at 88 | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Bunyo Ishikawa, a photojournalist best known for documenting the front lines of the Vietnam War, died of a malignant lymphoma at a hospital in C…
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Workers from Myanmar speak on daily abuse at Hokkaido farm | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
SAPPORO—Six Myanmar nationals gave a tearful account here of the daily physical abuse they endured on a farm in Kyogoku, Hokkaido.
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Wetenschap
Four medaka fish flew aboard Columbia in 1994 to test whether vertebrates could reproduce without gravity; they laid 43 eggs and eight baby fish hatched in space
In July 1994, four small medaka fish travelled into space as part of an experiment that tested whether fish could reproduce in microgravity. The…
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Want Hindu Rashtra not on paper, but in thoughts: Pandit Dhirendra Shastri(IANS Interview)
Pandit Dhirendra Shastri, the head priest of Bageshwar Dham, on Monday said that the idea of 'Hindu Rashtra' (Hindu nation) is necessary, an....
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4th suspect arrested over street robbery involving ¥5.55 million cocaine deal - Japan Today
Police in Osaka have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with an incident where a man who had come to the city for a cocaine deal was beat…