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Japan women step up to make big purchases in slow economy
After 25 years working as an accounting assistant in a leading construction company, Asako Nakano decided two summers ago that she needed to stabilize her...
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Historic 'pink' theater hopes to put ladies on seats, not just screens
The Kabuki-za theater in Ginza is not the only notable Tokyo structure dating back to the 1950s that has shut its doors this year. With...
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Tokyo Sky Tree is tallest building
The Tokyo Sky Tree tower, under construction in central Tokyo and already the tallest building in Japan, topped the 400-meter mark Friday, reaching 408 meters...
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Japan's population falls for 1st time in 3 yrs
Japan's population fell to 127,057,860 in the year to March 31, down for the first time in three years, largely because of an increase in...
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Mother arrested over dead toddlers says she wanted time for self
A 23-year-old mother who was arrested Friday over the death of her two toddlers at their apartment in the city of Osaka after apparently neglecting...
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Tokyo death chamber to be opened to media
The Justice Ministry will open the execution chamber at the Tokyo Detention House to the media as early as August, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba said...
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Truth Is out there in Japan's odd properties
Ever wanted to live in an egg-shaped spaceship? How about an old Japanese thatched-roof house or a Beatles-themed apartment? You're not alone. In Japan, real...
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2 children found dead at Osaka apartment, mother arrested
A 23-year-old woman was arrested Friday on suspicion of abandoning the bodies of her two children at her apartment in the city of Osaka, police...
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Japan pursues moon station by 2020
Japan is looking at sending a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and building a lunar base by 2020.
The robots would set up...
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2 Japanese films nominated for Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion
Two Japanese movies have been nominated for the 67th Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award, organizers of the festival beginning Sept. 1 said Thursday.
One is...
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Is this Japan's most influential person?
The most influential person in Japan is filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, well-known abroad for his bleak gangster films and at home for his deadpan television personality,...
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Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years
He was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo - but when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his 111th birthday, they uncovered...
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Mitsui maintains oil tanker was likely attacked
A Japanese shipping company maintained Thursday that its oil tanker was likely attacked in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, dismissing reports it may...
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Does Japan still need 23-yr-old exchange program?
Every year for the past two decades, legions of young Americans have descended upon Japan to teach English. This government-sponsored charm offensive was launched to...
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Spain likely to extradite 2007 Ginza robbery suspect: sources
The Spanish government will likely agree to transfer the custody of a Montenegrin member of the "Pink Panther" ring of thieves to Japan over a...
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Record 44,210 child abuse cases logged in '09
Child abuse cases handled by consultation offices hit a record 44,210 in fiscal 2009, rising for 19 straight years since statistics were first compiled in...
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Japan to review death penalty
Japan's justice minister, a foe of capital punishment, has announced a review of the death penalty after witnessing the first executions since her centre-left government...
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Japan hangs 2 death row inmates, 1st execution in 1 year
Japan hanged two death row inmates in the first execution under the Democratic Party of Japan government launched last September, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba told...
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Japan's rice field of dreams
Rice farming has sustained the people of northern Japan's Inakadate village for two thousand years. Today, the ancient rice fields are the source of food...
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Japan to take 32 Myanmar refugees
Japan will allow the settlement of 32 ethnic minority Myanmar refugees now living in Thailand, sources said.
The 32 people, consisting of six ethnic Karen families,...
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Climber missing in Swiss Alps
GENEVA (Kyodo) A 61-year-old Japanese man has gone missing while climbing in the Alps in southern Switzerland, the Japanese Embassy in Switzerland said Friday.
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Globalization of crime
Japanese criminals, too, are becoming more internationally minded. According to a white paper released by the National Police Agency on July 23, domestic criminal organizations...
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China rapidly boosts investments in JGBs
China sharply expanded investments in Japanese government bonds in the first months of this year, apparently to increase exposure to stable Japanese vehicles against the...
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Sea turtle eggs found at Mie beach
TSU, Mie Pref. (Kyodo) Loggerhead turtle eggs have been found at a beach near a major industrial complex in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, for the first...
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Population falls for first time since '07
Japan's population fell to 127,057,860 in the year to March 31, down for the first time in three years, largely because of an increase in...
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Mom: no remorse for kids' deaths
OSAKA (Kyodo) A 23-year-old mother who was arrested Friday after the rotting corpses of her two toddlers were found at their apartment in the city...
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The changing book world
In a time of major uncertainty for the Japanese book world, the latest winners of two major book awards have been announced. The Akutagawa Prize...
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Boat built for ancient sea voyage
MATSUE, Shimane Pref. (Kyodo) A citizens' group in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on Saturday launched a prototype dugout boat into a lake in preparation for re-enacting...
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China envoy arrives in Beijing
BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan's new ambassador to China, Uichiro Niwa, arrived in Beijing on Saturday and said he will serve with "patriotism and a pro-China spirit."...
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Tokyo Sky Tree is tallest building
The Tokyo Sky Tree tower, under construction in central Tokyo and already the tallest building in Japan, topped the 400-meter mark Friday, reaching 408 meters...
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Mudslide halts Iwate train, four hurt
MORIOKA, Iwate Pref. (Kyodo) A mudslide hit a local train running on the JR Iwaizumi Line in Iwate Prefecture on Saturday morning, causing the one-car...
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Penalize mob ties, JSA told by panel
An independent panel whose aim is to introduce reform measures to clean up the scandal-tainted world of sumo proposed a framework Saturday for the Japan...
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A vote for Hong Kong as most livable city
HONG KONG, PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES -- For me, there is no question that Hong Kong is one of the world's most wondrously livable cities. After 30...
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KANSAI: Who & What
Candlelit illumination event in city of Nara
The "Nara to-kae" illumination event will take place in Nara from Aug. 5 to 14.
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Singapore to help target Afghan corruption
SINGAPORE (Kyodo) Singapore will collaborate with Japan to help war-torn Afghanistan train its civil servants in combating corruption.
The training in anticorruption and...
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Excessive speed blamed for fatal Alps derailment
BRIG, Switzerland (Kyodo) Swiss transport authorities on Friday blamed excessive speed for the July 23 Glacier Express derailment that killed a 64-year-old Japanese woman and...
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Probable catalyst for violence
PARIS -- Just before Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, Vuk Jeremic, the Serbian foreign minister, warned that in Africa alone "there...
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Nuke sanctions on Iran said imminent
The government plans to compile punitive measures against Iran over its nuclear ambitions in early August, following the adoption of a resolution by the U.N....
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