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North Korean Tankers spotted at Russia’s Vostochny Port; Brazen Oil Product Smuggling Becomes the Norm
Several North Korean oil tankers that allegedly violated U.N. Security Council resolutions visite...
June 7, 2024
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Survey: Nearly 50% of Respondents Harassed by Customers; Some Companies Formulating Countermeasures For Growing Social Problem
Nearly 50% of respondents were harassed by customers in the past two years, according to a survey...
June 8, 2024
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Doctors Who Fought COVID-19 Turn To Fighting Online Abuse; They Aim To Keep Harassment From Impeding Future Medical Efforts
Doctors who called on people to get vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic became the targets of...
June 7, 2024
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Japan’s Revised Immigration Law Sparks Deportation Worries
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japan’s revised immigration control and refugee recognition law, set to take f...
June 9, 2024
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Tokyo’s Plunging Fertility Rate Sets Off Alarm Bells; Big Cities Put Drag on National Rate
Japan’s fertility rate continues to drop, and the latest health ministry figures are setting off ...
June 7, 2024
General News
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Misting System Cools Down Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills; Temperatures in Tokyo Expected to Reach Over 30 C This Week
People keep cool while walking under a misting system at the Roppongi Hills complex in Minato War...
June 12, 2024
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Seafood Consumption in Japan Falls to All-time Low, as People Eat More Meat
The nation’s seafood consumption has fallen to the lowest level on record, with annual per capita...
June 12, 2024
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Nagasaki Photos Taken Day After A-bombing Discovered Among Items Bought by Japanese Man at U.S. Auction
Photographs that captured the devastation of Nagasaki on Aug. 10, 1945, — the day after the atomi...
June 12, 2024
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Driver’s License Renewal Center for Elderly Opens in Saitama
SAITAMA (Jiji Press) — In a bid to deal with a growing number of elderly drivers, Saitama prefect...
June 12, 2024
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Japan Ranks 118th in Global Gender Gap Report; Up From Previous Year
Japan ranked 118th out of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, up from 125th in th...
June 12, 2024
Crime & Courts
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Kyoto: About ¥90,000 Worth of Kujo Negi Leeks Stolen From Field; Passerby Reported a Thief to Police Early Monday Morning
About 100 kilograms of Kujo negi leeks, worth about ¥90,000, were stolen from a field in Kumiyama...
June 11, 2024
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Philippine Woman Stabbed to Death on Yokohama Street; 33-Year-Old Male Suspect Turns Himself in to Police
YOKOHAMA — A 33-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of fatally stabbing a Philippine wo...
June 10, 2024
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Japanese Man Fatally Stabbed in Canada
New York, June 6 (Jiji Press)—Canadian police Thursday identified a man fatally stabbed in Vancou...
June 7, 2024
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Former Employee of Luxury Ginza Bar Arrested for Alleged Whisky Theft; 2 Bottles of Yamazaki 25 Years Old, Empty Bottle of Hibiki Stolen
A former employee of a luxury bar in Tokyo’s Ginza district was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolita...
June 6, 2024
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Male Univ. Student Arrested on Suspicion of Sexually Assaulting Elementary School Girl at Hotel in Kabukicho District, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo
A male university student from Tokyo was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting an ...
June 6, 2024
Imperial Family
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Japan Empress Emerita Recovers from COVID-19
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Japanese Empress Emerita Michiko, 89, has recovered from symptoms of COVID-19,...
June 10, 2024
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Japanese Emperor, Empress to Make Official Visit to U.K.
The Emperor and Empress will make an official visit to Britain as state guests from June 22 to 29...
June 4, 2024
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Princess Yuriko, Oldest in Japan’s Imperial Family, Turns 101
Tokyo, June 4 (Jiji Press) — Princess Yuriko, the oldest living member of the Japanese Imperial F...
June 4, 2024
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Parties Say Japan’s Married Princesses Should Keep Status; No Agreement Reached on Status of Husbands, Children
In discussions aimed at ensuring stable succession to the Imperial throne, the ruling and opposit...
June 1, 2024
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Princess Kako ‘Feels Close Tie Between Japan, Greece’; Attending Corfu Island Event Celebrating 125th Anniversary of Relations Between Tokyo, Athens
KERKYRA, Greece — Princess Kako, the second daughter of Crown Prince Akishino, attended an event ...
May 31, 2024
Obituaries
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Fumihiko Maki, Designer of Hillside Terrace in Tokyo, Dies at 95; Pritzker Prize-winning Architect also Taught at University of Tokyo
Fumihiko Maki, a world-renowned architect who designed the Makuhari Messe convention center in Ch...
June 12, 2024
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Akira Endo, Contributor to Development of Statins, Dies at 90; His Name Had Been Floated for Nobel Prize
Tokyo (Jiji Press)—Akira Endo, special honorary professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and ...
June 11, 2024
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Former Astronaut William Anders, who Took Iconic Earthrise Photo, Killed in Washington Plane Crash
SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” phot...
June 8, 2024
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Nonny Hogrogian, Illustrator of Children’s Folk Tales and Fables, Dies at 92
Nonny Hogrogian, an artist and book illustrator whose sturdy woodcut images and dreamy watercolor...
June 7, 2024
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Voice Actor Eiko Masuyama Dies at 88; Known for Her Role as Fujiko Mine in Lupin the Third
Voice actor Eiko Masuyama, 88, died on May 20 due to pneumonia. Masuyama was well known for her r...
June 3, 2024
Social Series
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / Fans Benefit as Sports World Adopts AI, but Other Risks Remain
It was the final day of the Masters in April, and Tiger Woods had just chipped his third shot ont...
May 17, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / AI Lends Medicine Helping Hand, But Doctors Wary of Variation in Diagnoses
There is a neurosurgical clinic in Tokyo often visited by patients suffering from headaches. Befo...
May 17, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / AI Brings Benefits to Companies While Government Guidelines Bring Confusion; JR Kyushu Finds Innovative Uses for AI
In late March, a station worker at the lost and found center in JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka Pref...
May 15, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / Generative AI Displays Misinformation at City Official Website; Towns Limit AI Services as Mistakes Creep in
Last November, Eiji Okazaki, 51, a local government official, sighs as he looks at the computer s...
May 15, 2024
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Examining Generative AI: Impact on Society / Students Have AI Come Up with Answers, Copy Them
“It’s like a free tutoring service has emerged,” said a 56-year-old English teacher at a Tokyo pr...
May 14, 2024
Coronavirus
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Doctors Who Fought COVID-19 Turn To Fighting Online Abuse; They Aim To Keep Harassment From Impeding Future Medical Efforts
Doctors who called on people to get vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic became the targets of...
June 7, 2024
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Many Struggling With Long-COVID in Post-Pandemic World; Lack of Understanding Adds to Strain of Symptoms
Wednesday marked one year since COVID-19 was downgraded to Category V under the Infectious Diseas...
May 8, 2024
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Public Health Institute in Japan Plans Network with Asian Partners; Data to Be Shared With India, Taiwan and Vietnam
In an effort to promptly share information on infectious diseases in Asia, a team within the Nati...
April 7, 2024
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About 240 Mil. Unused COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Be Discarded; Free Vaccination Program Ended
The government is planning to discard about 240 million unused COVID-19 vaccines, as new variant ...
April 2, 2024
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Alarming Surge in Japan’s COVID-19 Cases; 10 Weeks Straight Increase, Half Aged 14 and Under
The Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry provided an update on Friday regarding the COVID-19 situatio...
February 2, 2024
Noto Peninsula Earthquake
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Moisturizing Substance Suddenly Forms in Hot Spring Water; Curious Change Occurs in Toyama Pref. Resorts After Earthquake
UOZU, Toyama — Following the Noto Peninsula Earthquake on Jan. 1, the chemical composition of the...
June 12, 2024
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News in Pictures / Earthquake-hit Noto Prepares for Rainy Season, Hot Summer; Local Govts Try to Patch Leaky Homes, Keep Food Cool
Saturday marked five months since the Noto Peninsula Earthquake struck Ishikawa Prefecture on New...
June 4, 2024
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Sumo Wrestler Onosato Returns to His Native Ishikawa Prefecture; Meets Victims of Noto Peninsula Earthquake
KANAZAWA – Ishikawa Prefecture native komusubi Onosato, who recently became Summer Grand Sumo Tou...
June 3, 2024
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Houses Slowly Demolished with Public Funding After Noto Earthquake; Only 0.6% Removed After Five Months
KANAZAWA – The removal of buildings damaged by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake has not progressed, ...
June 1, 2024
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Combining Broken Tea Bowls Help Heal Kanazawa Potter’s Broken Heart; Japan’s Ohi Ware Artist Creates New Works From Old Family Creations
KANAZAWA — A Kanazawa potter has been fusing together fragments of tea bowls, which were shattere...
May 23, 2024
JN Popular Articles
- Japan’s Economy Shrinks 2% in Jan.-March
- Wings of 2 JAL Planes Collide at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport; No Injuries Reported But Flight from Haneda to New Chitose Cancelled
- Typhoon Ewiniar Forms Near Philippines; High Alert for Heavy Rainfall Likely Across Japan
- Tokyo District Court Rules AI Cannot Be Issued Patents; Law Recognizes Only ‘Natural Persons’ as Inventors
- Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake Rocks Japan’s Ishikawa Pref.; No Tsunami Expected
JN TOP STORIES
- Japan Organ Donation Coordinator Asked to Conduct Survey; Health Ministry Seeks Report in July on Declined Organs
- Fumihiko Maki, Designer of Hillside Terrace in Tokyo, Dies at 95; Pritzker Prize-winning Architect also Taught at University of Tokyo
- Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernández and Jason Heyward Homers in a Seven-Run Sixth Inning; Dodgers Beat Rangers 15-2
- Misting System Cools Down Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills; Temperatures in Tokyo Expected to Reach Over 30 C This Week
- Seafood Consumption in Japan Falls to All-time Low, as People Eat More Meat
- Koike to Seek 3rd Term in Tokyo Gubernatorial Election; Vows for Improved Version of ‘Great Tokyo Reforms’ (UPDATE 1)
- 2 Women Arrested in Hokkaido for Allegedly Killing 17-year-old Girl; Likely Caused Victim’s Fall from Bridge after Online trouble (UPDATE1)