Japan's disaster management agency to be launched Nov. 2
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government decided on Friday to launch a disaster management agency on Nov. 2 to oversee disaster response, preparedness
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government decided on Friday to launch a disaster management agency on Nov. 2 to oversee disaster response, preparedness
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Recently elected Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja said Monday that he supports a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. military air base withi
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TOKYO -- Japan's education ministry has presented draft ministerial guidelines stating that digital textbooks scheduled for introduction from fiscal 2
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Chinese man was referred to prosecutors Monday for allegedly disrupting a major mobile carrier's services in Tokyo's Ginza shopping
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It has been one year since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made comments in the Diet about a Taiwan contingency that so angered Beijing, yet Japan still
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FUKUTSU, Fukuoka -- The fire department serving the Fukuoka Prefecture cities of Munakata and Fukutsu has developed a small, unmanned firefighting rob
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market on July 30, buying a record 7.98 trillion yen ($50.4 billion) to stem the Japanese cu
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SAGA -- A new snack made with Saga Prefecture's "Ichigosan" brand strawberries has joined the lineup of products bearing the name of the popular Black
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YATSUSHIRO, Kumamoto -- A gathering was held in this southwestern Japan city to encourage technical intern trainees and specified skilled workers who
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index jumped over 3 percent Monday morning, on dip-buying led by artificial intelligence- and semiconductor-related
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday reaffirmed her determination to secure the return of Japanese citizens abducted by North Kore
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MATSUMOTO, Nagano -- Shinshu University Hospital here is researching and developing "sterile flowers" that inpatients can enjoy by their bedsides with
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TOKYO -- Japan has many expressions connecting autumn with food: "autumn harvest," "autumn bounty" and "autumn appetite." But abnormal heat and torren
