2025 Tokyo Deaflympics helped raise awareness, but challenges remain, survey finds
While the event was significant for working toward an inclusive society, the survey also highlighted issues remaining after it was done.
While the event was significant for working toward an inclusive society, the survey also highlighted issues remaining after it was done.
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The U.S. dollar jumped above the 157 yen line on Friday, after two of nine Bank of Japan policy board members voted against an intere
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SEMBOKU, Akita -- Students at Tamagawa University in Tokyo have come up with proposals to promote Tamagawa Onsen in Akita Prefecture, drawing on the s
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KOBE -- It was a comedy contest with a difference. Dubbed the "S1 Grand Prix," the inaugural event in western Japan featured performers who all had on
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I had a 10-day summer break. After pondering where to go for all of 1.5 seconds, I decided to visit Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, for the
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's core consumer prices in August rose 1.7 percent from a year earlier, remaining below 2 percent for the eighth consecutive mon
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Typhoon Dujuan was southeast of the Japanese archipelago on Thursday and moving on a northerly path that appeared likely to bring it
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KOBE -- An anonymous individual has donated 35 kilograms of pure gold ingots worth 833.74 million yen (about $5.4 million) to the Hyogo Prefectural Go
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TAIPEI (Kyodo) -- Taiwan's Foreign Ministry on Thursday presented more than NT$300 million ($9.4 million) in donations raised in Taiwan to help those
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KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Bullet train services on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line resumed along the entire route Friday for the first time in 52 days aft
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet reshuffle Thursday set the stage for next year's race for the presidency of the ruling Libera
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's immigration agency had 103 IC card printers, worth about 56.5 million yen ($363,000), sitting unused at seven regional bureau
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Tokyo metropolitan government is considering an ordinance banning littering, as trash left in downtown entertainment districts ha
