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Japan to beef up measures to control bear population

Japan to beef up measures to control bear population

Japan will take tougher measures to control its population of bears, its environ...

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Princess Aiko to visit Laos from Nov 17 on 1st official trip abroad

Princess Aiko to visit Laos from Nov 17 on 1st official...

Princess Aiko, the only child of Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, w...

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Princess Aiko to visit Laos from Nov. 17 on 1st official trip abroad

Princess Aiko to visit Laos from Nov. 17 on 1st officia...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Princess Aiko, the only child of Japanese Emperor Naruhito and ...

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Naomi Osaka is out of the Japan Open quarterfinals with a left leg injury

Naomi Osaka is out of the Japan Open quarterfinals with...

OSAKA, Japan (AP) -- Naomi Osaka pulled out of her quarterfinal match at the Jap...

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Easy Japanese news in translation: Goats help clean schoolyard in Gifu Prefecture

Easy Japanese news in translation: Goats help clean sch...

Goats have been delivered to Mitake Municipal Kaminogo Elementary School in Gifu...

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Rural teacher shortage sending prefectural officials back to drawing board

Rural teacher shortage sending prefectural officials ba...

On a humid June morning in Tottori Prefecture, hundreds of would-be teachers fil...

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JR Central to trial AI analysis of passenger footage on shinkansen trains

JR Central to trial AI analysis of passenger footage on...

JR Central said it plans to trial using artificial intelligence to analyze passe...

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Editorial: 80 years after WWII, Japan must reflect on its past and renew its vow of peace

Editorial: 80 years after WWII, Japan must reflect on i...

Just over 80 years have passed since the end of World War II, and memories of th...

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TEPCO weighs scrapping 2 reactors at Niigata nuclear power plant

TEPCO weighs scrapping 2 reactors at Niigata nuclear po...

NIIGATA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Thursd...

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6 injured after truck, car collide on expressway near Tokyo

6 injured after truck, car collide on expressway near T...

SAITAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A truck and a car collided on an expressway near Tokyo...

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JIP chief vows no coalition with LDP without deal on cutting Diet seats

JIP chief vows no coalition with LDP without deal on cu...

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- The leader of the major opposition Japan Innovation Party said ...

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Ex-Trump national security adviser Bolton charged with storing and sharing classified information

Ex-Trump national security adviser Bolton charged with ...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- John Bolton, who served as national security adviser to P...

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Ex-PM Aso to lead Japan delegation to S. Korea in November as ties improve

Ex-PM Aso to lead Japan delegation to S. Korea in Novem...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will travel to South Ko...

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Berlin court again orders S. Korean group to remove 'comfort woman' statue

Berlin court again orders S. Korean group to remove 'co...

WARSAW (Kyodo) -- A Berlin higher administrative court on Thursday again ordered...

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TSMC begins construction of 2nd Japanese plant, CEO says

TSMC begins construction of 2nd Japanese plant, CEO says

TAIPEI (Kyodo) -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest co...

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Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama dies at 101

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama dies at 101

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tomiichi Murayama, who served as prime minister from June 1994 ...