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General News
Ice maker banks on ornamental blocks to boost sales
Tokyo ice maker Onoda-Shoten Co. has increased production of ornamental ice blocks as part of effort...
August 21, 2022
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Books & Literature
Autumn book month planned to boost Japan publishing industry
A monthlong book event will be held nationwide this autumn to promote books and reading to the publi...
August 21, 2022
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Crime ＆ Courts
Sources: Tokyo Games exec asked IOC to expedite approval of Aoki products
Haruyuki Takahashi, the former Tokyo Games organizing committee executive arrested on suspicion of a...
August 20, 2022
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Coronavirus
Tokyo logs 25,277 new cases
Tokyo confirmed 25,277 new cases of novel coronavirus infection on Saturday, up from a week earlier ...
August 20, 2022
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Asia PacificCambodia: Sweet-voiced singer recalls bitter life under Khmer Rouge regime
Life under the Khmer Rouge regime was brutal for many and every person who lived through it has thei...
August 20, 2022
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Coronavirus
Govt eyes alternatives to reporting all COVID cases
The government has indicated it intends to speed up a review of the pandemic-related regulation that...
August 20, 2022
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Art
Giant portraits take over park in Kobe
Inside Out Project Kobe, an art event that pastes giant portraits on walls, is being held at Meriken...
August 20, 2022
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General News
Government to subsidize local ‘My Number’ reward schemes
The central government plans to subsidize points schemes linked to My Number identification cards op...
August 20, 2022
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General News
Tokyo Gov. Koike to gather information on organ trafficking
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Friday that the Tokyo metropolitan government will “gather necessary in...
August 20, 2022
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Political Cartoons
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August 20, 2022
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General News
Lawsuit seeks injunction against state funeral for Abe
Members of a citizens’ group filed a lawsuit Friday in Osaka District Court seeking an injunction ag...
August 20, 2022
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Companies
Mitsui to notify Russia of keeping rights and interests in Sakhalin-2 project
Mitsui & Co. plans to notify the Russian government of its intention to maintain its rights and inte...
August 20, 2022
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Yomiuri Editorial
Reforms needed to improve technical intern program
The poor working conditions of foreign trainees in Japan’s so-called technical intern program have l...
August 20, 2022
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Yomiuri Editorial
Industry, govt, academia must strive to make use of Japan’s seabed resources
If the mining of rare mineral resources in the seabed in waters around Japan can be commercialized, ...
August 20, 2022
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Japan In Focus
Kagawa: When you wish upon a cucumber …
SHODOSHIMA, Kagawa — An unusual Buddhist ritual in which a cucumber is used to pray for the healing ...
August 20, 2022