Japan’s Government Urges Residents to Stock Up
Japan’s new disaster agency urges households to stock up. Here’s what that means
Japan’s new disaster agency urges households to stock up. Here’s what that means
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday vowed to work to reduce the burden of U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture duri
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TOKYO -- "Kana-sho," a uniquely Japanese form of calligraphy, creates beauty through the interplay of ink lines and empty space. The Japanese calligra
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday she conveyed Japan's "strong concern" over the European Union's consideration of a prefer
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese ruling and opposition parties agreed Friday to vote later in the day on a bill to cut the consumption tax on food and bevera
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The benchmark Nikkei stock index briefly fell more than 7 percent Friday morning, dropping below the 60,000 line for the first time s
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TOKYO -- Police in Japan recorded a provisional total of 15,919 bicycle traffic violations in the first six months after the introduction of a new "bl
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's industry ministry on Friday ordered Chubu Electric Power Co. to improve operations following its manipulation of seismic data
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A year after ties with China went into a tailspin over remarks by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on how Japan might respond to a crisi
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan should strengthen its economic and fiscal base to prepare for the event of a national security crisis, the Finance Ministry sai
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- SMBC Consumer Finance Co. said Thursday that personal information of up to 320,000 customers had been leaked following unauthorized a
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's real wages in September rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier, marking the ninth consecutive month of growth, government data
