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Politics & Government
LDP’s concerns rise over involvement with former Unification Church
The Liberal Democratic Party is concerned with successive revelations about the relationship between...
August 8, 2022
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General News
Untouched military remains found on southern Japan island
A local board of education in Kagoshima Prefecture has found untouched remains of Imperial Japanese ...
August 8, 2022
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General News
Japanese NPO suspected of facilitating transplant using trafficked kidney
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization is suspected of having facilitated an overseas living donor kid...
August 7, 2022
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General News
Sand cats YouTube video proves adorable hit
UTSUNOMIYA — A video of sand cats posted by Nasu Animal Kingdom on YouTube has proved a major hit, d...
August 7, 2022
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Coronavirus
Tokyo logs 26,313 new cases
Tokyo logged 26,313 new cases of novel coronavirus infection on Sunday, down by 5,228 from the same ...
August 7, 2022
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Japan In Focus
Lights, sound used to create ghostly art at summer exhibition
MISAWA, Aomori — A special exhibition to make “ghosts” seem less frightening is being held at the Mi...
August 7, 2022
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Associated Press
17 missing, 121 hurt, 1 dead in fire at Cuban oil facility
HAVANA (AP) — A fire set off by a lightning strike at an oil storage facility raged uncontrolled in ...
August 7, 2022
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Reuters
First foreign-flagged ship arrives in Ukraine since Feb, awaits grain load
A foreign-flagged ship arrived in Ukraine on Saturday for the first time since the war started in Fe...
August 7, 2022
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Reuters
Chinese and Taiwanese warships eye each other as drills due to end
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high-seas “cat and mouse” on Sunday ahead o...
August 7, 2022
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Reuters
Palestinian Islamic jihad group confirms killing of a senior commander in Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) – The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement (PIJ) on Sunday confirmed the killing of one...
August 7, 2022
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Reuters
‘Time against us’ in bid to rescue 10 Mexican miners after 3 days underground
SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) – Large pumps sucked water from a flooded coal mine in Mexico on Saturday ...
August 7, 2022
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Washington Post
Pick your economy: booming labor market or fizzling growth
WASHINGTON – Friday’s blowout jobs report may have quieted claims that the U.S. is in a recession, b...
August 7, 2022
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Washington Post
Lifeguard drones can save lives. But U.S. beaches might not buy them.
When a 14-year-old boy was in danger of drowning off the Spanish shores of Valencia last month, help...
August 7, 2022
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Washington Post
Russian men, dying in war, leave many families sad, angry and silent
When Yevgeny Chubarin told his mother he was joining the Russian army to fight against Ukraine, she ...
August 7, 2022
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Japan In Focus
Map of sulfur mining sites discovered, possibly drawn by intl trading pioneer
TSUMAGOI, Gunma — Shedding new light on the achievements of international trading pioneer Nakaiya Ju...
August 7, 2022