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Youth groups organize fireworks in quake and heavy rain affected city

Youth groups organize fireworks in quake and heavy rain affected city

A committee in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture organized fireworks in an effort to brighten up the city that experienced the...

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Kumamoto Prefectures famous mascot celebrates 15th year since debut

Kumamoto Prefectures famous mascot celebrates 15th year since debut

Kumamon celebrated 15 years as the mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan.The annual Kumamon birthday festi...

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Visitors to Hiroshima's A-bomb museum surpass 80 million

Visitors to Hiroshima's A-bomb museum surpass 80 million

The number of visitors to the 70-year-old Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the 1945 atomic bombing of the wes...

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Japans easternmost station closes in JR Hokkaido revisions

Japans easternmost station closes in JR Hokkaido revisions

Nemuro Station in Hokkaido was named Japan’s easternmost station after the Hokkaido Railway Company’s timetable revision...

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Bereaved kin of 1995 sarin attacks on Tokyo subway still battling Aum successor

Bereaved kin of 1995 sarin attacks on Tokyo subway still battling Aum successor

Takahashi Shizue, whose husband was killed in the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, spoke at an event for...

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Princess Akiko to host Japanese radio show

Princess Akiko to host Japanese radio show

Princess Akiko is set to host a Japanese radio show in April.The princess, who is the granddaughter of Princess Yuriko w...

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China deports Japanese tourists for showing buttocks at Great Wall

China deports Japanese tourists for showing buttocks at Great Wall

According to sources, a Japanese man in his 20s exposed his buttocks at the Great Wall in Beijing in January 2025.A Japa...

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Japan Cherry Blossom Forecast 2025

Japan Cherry Blossom Forecast 2025

Japan’s cherry blossom season is just around the corner.Various weather companies have released the forecast for when Ja...

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Ishiba denies to step down over 100,000yen gift voucher problem

Ishiba denies to step down over 100,000yen gift voucher problem

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru / This is not a violation of the law. It is not a donation related to political a...

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Alimentation Couche-tard "disappointed" with Seven & i takeover talks

Alimentation Couche-tard "disappointed" with Seven & i takeover talks

Alimentation Couche-Tard founder and executive chairman Alain Bouchard / We are either disappointed that this engagement...

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