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High court upholds approval for nuclear reactors in southwest Japan

High court upholds approval for nuclear reactors in sou...

A Japanese high court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a call ...

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Japan to allow over-the-counter 'morning-after pill' sales to all ages

Japan to allow over-the-counter 'morning-after pill' sa...

Over-the-counter sales of morning-after pills will not be age restricted or requ...

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Tokyo logs record 10 consecutive days of 35C or higher

Tokyo logs record 10 consecutive days of 35C or higher

Tokyo experienced a record 10 consecutive days of temperatures 35C or above, the...

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Bones found at Japanese site where Korean forced laborers died in WWII

Bones found at Japanese site where Korean forced labore...

Police said Wednesday that a set of bones recovered at a wartime mine in Japan a...

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Editorial: Preventing tick-borne diseases vital as Japan infections hit record high

Editorial: Preventing tick-borne diseases vital as Japa...

Japan has seen a rising number of patients infected with severe fever with throm...

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Trump saying 600,000 Chinese students could come to the US draws MAGA backlash

Trump saying 600,000 Chinese students could come to the...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump seemingly caught his loyal conservativ...

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Swiss food delivery robot eyed for labor-challenged Japan market

Swiss food delivery robot eyed for labor-challenged Jap...

ZURICH (Kyodo) -- A Swiss business project aims to introduce delivery robots in ...

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Trump's order on flag burning could return the question to the Supreme Court

Trump's order on flag burning could return the question...

(AP) -- The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if it were up to...

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Latest launch of SpaceX's Starship completes first-ever payload deployment of 8 dummy satellites

Latest launch of SpaceX's Starship completes first-ever...

(AP) -- SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday n...

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Statue of 16th-century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Nagoya found with head missing

Statue of 16th-century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Na...

NAGOYA -- A statue of famous 16th-century Japanese feudal lord Toyotomi Hideyosh...

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Japan opposition party lawmaker's offices searched for alleged salary fraud

Japan opposition party lawmaker's offices searched for ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo prosecutors searched opposition party lawmaker Akira Ishi...

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Central Tokyo sets new record for streak of 'extremely hot' 35 C-plus days

Central Tokyo sets new record for streak of 'extremely ...

TOKYO -- Temperatures across the Japanese archipelago rose Aug. 27 due to a high...

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European and Iranian diplomats fail to agree on how to avoid reimposition of UN sanctions

European and Iranian diplomats fail to agree on how to ...

VIENNA (AP) -- Representatives of three European countries threatening to reimpo...

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Easy Japanese news in translation: 'Rice field rugby' event held in Nara Prefecture

Easy Japanese news in translation: 'Rice field rugby' e...

A "rice field rugby" event recently took place in the city of Sakurai, Nara Pref...

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Trump's 50% tariff on Indian imports comes into effect

Trump's 50% tariff on Indian imports comes into effect

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's 50 percent tariff on Indian ...

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Tech university's exam reforms make it Japan's most attractive to applicants

Tech university's exam reforms make it Japan's most att...

This spring, the Chiba Institute of Technology, a private institution near Tokyo...