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Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party: The princess joined the party hosted by the emperor and empress at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens after ...
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Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
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‘Not only through blue eyes’: Hiroyuki Sanada on bringing ‘Shogun’ to life: Lead actor and producer of the hit FX series on his quest for authentic Japanese ...
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‘Not only through blue eyes’: Hiroyuki Sanada on bringing ‘Shogun’ to life
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Old Japanese train cars get new life in Cambodia: Japanese rail diesel cars taken out of service will get a second life in Cambodia.
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Old Japanese train cars get new life in Cambodia
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Easy Japanese news in translation: 15,000 people take part in Tokyo Rainbow Pride event - The Mainichi
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Easy Japanese news in translation: 15,000 people take part in Tokyo ...
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MLB: Record-setting Shohei Ohtani says still striving to improve - The Mainichi: WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Shohei Ohtani felt he had done something special the ...
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MLB: Record-setting Shohei Ohtani says still striving to improve - The ...
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Japanese Astronaut Furukawa Wishes to ‘Pass the Baton’; Furukawa Also Expressed Desire to Help Other Japanese Astronauts Still on ISS
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Japanese Astronaut Furukawa Wishes to ‘Pass the Baton’; Furukawa Also ...
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Toshiba weighs cutting 5,000 jobs in Japan: TOKYO -- Toshiba is considering cutting its domestic workforce by 5,000, equivalent to about 7% of the total in Japan ...
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Toshiba weighs cutting 5,000 jobs in Japan
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Japan foreign tourists top 3m in March, fueling record spending boom: TOKYO -- The number of monthly visitors to Japan exceeded 3 million for the first time in ...
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Japan foreign tourists top 3m in March, fueling record spending boom
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Man Repels Bear Attack in Hokkaido by Kicking its Face After Encountering 2 Bears While Sightseeing
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Man Repels Bear Attack in Hokkaido by Kicking its Face After Encountering ...
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How Shogun became an unlikely streaming success: Subtitled fare is mainstream these days and audiences are flocking to foreign-language shows ...
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How Shogun became an unlikely streaming success
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Japan hotel prices near 30-year high as weak yen lures record tourists: The average daily room rate for March was about ¥20,986 ($136), the highest level since ...
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Japan hotel prices near 30-year high as weak yen lures record tourists
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Nidec faces market pressure as founder rips 'unfair' China EV war: TOKYO -- Cutthroat competition in China's electric vehicle sector has cast a shadow over ...
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Nidec faces market pressure as founder rips 'unfair' China EV war
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Japan is poised to fill an EV gap left by China: A new Honda facility in Canada shows that Asia’s auto industry is ready to meet North American needs.
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Japan is poised to fill an EV gap left by China
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Japan and India to be next AI hotspots: Vinod Khosla: PALO ALTO, California -- Artificial intelligence innovations are diverse, and related business ...
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Japan and India to be next AI hotspots: Vinod Khosla
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‘We want to enjoy now’: Young Japanese choose work-life balance over notoriously long office hours
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‘We want to enjoy now’: Young Japanese choose work-life balance over ...
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How US allies are preparing for a possible second Trump term - Asia & Pacific - The Jakarta Post
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How US allies are preparing for a possible second Trump term - Asia & ...
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Japanese companies navigate workplace revolution as job hunters get choosier: TOKYO -- For decades, Japanese manufacturer MinebeaMitsumi has worked in obscurity ...
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Japanese companies navigate workplace revolution as job hunters get ...
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Japan’s Former Premier Aso to Meet Trump as US Election Looms: Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is set to meet former President Donald Trump on Tuesday ...
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Japan’s Former Premier Aso to Meet Trump as US Election Looms
Quick Glance: Taro Aso Meets Trump in New York Prior to Election
  • Ahead of the November elections, former Prime Minister Taro Aso met with Donald Trump in New York as some countries were establishing connections with the ex-US president.

  • Serving as the Vice President of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, Aso had a strong alliance with the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who shared a close bond with Trump.

  • During the meeting, Trump also commended Japan's increased defense expenditures.

  • The meeting on Tuesday occurred following Trump's involvement in a hearing related to alleged hush money payments to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election.
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Singapore loses shine as Southeast Asia base for multinationals: SINGAPORE -- Multinational corporations are increasingly locating some Southeast Asian ...
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Singapore loses shine as Southeast Asia base for multinationals
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Two Japan SDF helicopters crash, one body found, 7 missing -media: Two Japanese maritime self-defence forces helicopters crashed into the sea during a training ...
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Two Japan SDF helicopters crash, one body found, 7 missing -media
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'City Hunter' manga hero drops the sexism for new live-action film: Lead actor Ryohei Suzuki says production had to strike a balance between his character's ...
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'City Hunter' manga hero drops the sexism for new live-action film
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Former world No. 1 Momota announces retirement from international badminton: PETALING JAYA: Former world No. 1 men’s singles shuttler Kento Momota has announced ...
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Former world No. 1 Momota announces retirement from international ...
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North Korea launches suspected ballistic missile into sea: Authorities in Japan and South Korea have reported what they suspect to be a North Korean missile ...
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North Korea launches suspected ballistic missile into sea
Quick Glance: Kim Leads Rocket Drills for Nuclear Counterattacks
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised rocket launches simulating nuclear counterattacks.

  • The drills showcased the strength of the country's nuclear forces.

  • The rockets were described as highly accurate and capable of carrying tactical nuclear warheads.

  • The US and South Korea are responding with enhanced military exercises and nuclear deterrence strategies.
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SoftBank to spend $960m to boost computing power for generative AI: TOKYO -- Japanese telecom company SoftBank is investing 150 billion yen ($960 million) by ...
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SoftBank to spend $960m to boost computing power for generative AI
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World's 1st recycled diapers go on sale at stores in southwest Japan - The Mainichi
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World's 1st recycled diapers go on sale at stores in southwest Japan - The ...
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Japan restarts world's largest nuclear power plant: After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan also shut down all nuclear power plants ...
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Japan restarts world's largest nuclear power plant
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26 degrees in April: temperature record in Sapporo, Japan: Temperatures have been recorded in the metropolis since 1877. Now Sapporo has experienced the earliest ...
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26 degrees in April: temperature record in Sapporo, Japan
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Pet Treat Market, Sales Continue to Grow; Treats That Double as Toothpaste Particularly Popular
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Pet Treat Market, Sales Continue to Grow; Treats That Double as Toothpaste ...
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Former Japan PM Aso heads to New York in bid to meet Trump: TOKYO -- Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso begins a visit to New York on Monday during which he ...
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Former Japan PM Aso heads to New York in bid to meet Trump
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Japan considering first hike in teachers' overtime pay in 50 years: There has been a proposal for raising the allowances to 10% of monthly salary or even higher ...
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Japan considering first hike in teachers' overtime pay in 50 years
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Indonesia awards Jakarta MRT extension project to Japan's Sojitz: TOKYO -- The Japanese trading house Sojitz has signed a 45 billion yen ($290 million) contract ...
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Indonesia awards Jakarta MRT extension project to Japan's Sojitz
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Easy Japanese news in translation: Nemophila flowers blend in with Ibaraki Pref.'s blue sky - The Mainichi
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Easy Japanese news in translation: Nemophila flowers blend in with Ibaraki ...
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Hotels are new darling of foreign investors in Japanese property: TOKYO -- Investors remain bullish about Japan's property market this year ...
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Hotels are new darling of foreign investors in Japanese property
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U.S. 7th Fleet officer Arrested on Suspicion of Stealing Sushi, Sashimi, Chicken at Kanagawa Shopping Mall; Suspect Caught Mid-Meal
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U.S. 7th Fleet officer Arrested on Suspicion of Stealing Sushi, Sashimi ...
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Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings said on Tuesday it wanted to see huge growth for its 7-Eleven convenience store chain globally ... Show more
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Japanese AI tool predicts when recruits will quit: The tool crunches data on employees at a company, from their attendance record to personal information such as ...
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Japanese AI tool predicts when recruits will quit
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Japanese dancer Yuna Yamada wins first place in U.S. ballet contest: 'I want to be a dancer influential enough to make the audience smile,' said Yamada, 12 ...
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Japanese dancer Yuna Yamada wins first place in U.S. ballet contest
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What would Sigmund Freud have thought of Japan’s largely peaceful history?: In an exchange of letters, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud discussed human nature ...
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What would Sigmund Freud have thought of Japan’s largely peaceful history?
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Japan's big cities become magnets for inherited rural savings: TOKYO -- Major Japanese banks are vying for an estimated 58 trillion yen ($377 billion) in ...
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Japan's big cities become magnets for inherited rural savings
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Hydrogen is developing fast in Japan, closer to societal use: Japan is a global leader in hydrogen technology development, largely due to its strategic emphasis ...
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Hydrogen is developing fast in Japan, closer to societal use
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Support for Japan PM Kishida's Cabinet tops 20% for 1st time in 3 months: Mainichi poll - The Mainichi
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Support for Japan PM Kishida's Cabinet tops 20% for 1st time in 3 months: ...
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Japanese students losing interest in civil service: Public-private job search timing affects student behavior, especially in new graduate hiring.
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Japanese students losing interest in civil service
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How green are your trainers? Team Japan uniforms to have carbon footprint labels: Japanese Olympians stepping up to the podium in Paris will have more than just ...
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How green are your trainers? Team Japan uniforms to have carbon footprint ...
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Japan studies Israel's air defense success with eye on Indo-Pacific: WASHINGTON -- Japanese defense officials have told Nikkei Asia that they watched how Israel ...
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Japan studies Israel's air defense success with eye on Indo-Pacific
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Japanese AI tool predicts when recruits will quit jobs: Japanese businesses traditionally all hire graduates at the same time each year, but about one in 10 ...
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Japanese AI tool predicts when recruits will quit jobs
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Japan studies Israel's air defense success with eye on Indo-Pacific: WASHINGTON -- Japanese defense officials have told Nikkei Asia that they watched how Israel ...
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Japan studies Israel's air defense success with eye on Indo-Pacific
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Oracle to spend over $8bn to build more data centers in Japan: TOKYO -- Oracle will spend a total of more than $8 billion over 10 years, starting in 2024 ...
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Oracle to spend over $8bn to build more data centers in Japan
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OpenAI triples Japanese language processing speed: TOKYO -- U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI is preparing an improved version of its core large ...
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OpenAI triples Japanese language processing speed