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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday launched discus...
OITA -- Residents of the Saganoseki district in this southwest Japan city were l...
Parts of a famous bamboo grove on the outskirts of Kyoto were cut down on Wednes...
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay around 3.9 billion y...
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