Kobe steel CEO apologizes for data falsification
Kobe steel CEO Hiroya Kawasaki apologizes for falsifying data and says that data for core steel products were also alter...
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Trump to meet parents of woman abducted by N.Korea
US President Donald Trump will reportedly meet the parents of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korea.
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Court orders govt to pay damages in US base noise lawsuit
A Japanese court orders the government to pay more than $5.4m in a noise pollution lawsuit over the US Yokota air base i...
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Princess Mako visits Ehime for sports event
Princess Mako visits Ehime Prefecture for a national sports festival, taking in a town famous for towels and a small, en...
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Party of Hope vows to freeze consumption tax
The Party of Hope releases its political platform, pledging to freeze the consumption tax and phase out nuclear power.
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Japanese contributors to Nobel physics prize research express delight
Japanese contributors to the Nobel-winning discovery of gravitational waves tell Nippon TV of their delight.
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Edano launches new political party
Lawmaker Yukio Edano launches a new party to vie against the more conservative political competition in the upcoming ele...
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Toshiba sets chip unit sale to Bain group
Struggling Toshiba announces the sale of its memory chip division to a Bain Capital-led group with investors from Japan,...
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Pyeongchang Olympics map lacks Japan
A world map on the website for South Korea's Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics lacked Japan.
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S. Korean group obtains photo purportedly of Japanese abductee
A South Korean group obtains a photo purportedly of a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents 40 years ago.
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