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Japan deploys soldiers to contain surge in bear attacks in Akita
Close encounters reported almost daily as bears intrude into residential areas and attack and sometimes kill p…
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Tokyo court orders dissolution of ‘Moonies’ Unification church
Assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe spurred official request for closure of South Korea-based sectA…
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World’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, dies in Japan aged 116
Itooka, who died at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and had been a keen mountain climberA Japanese woma…
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Japan’s parliament re-elects PM Shigeru Ishiba despite bruising election result
Ishiba’s governing coalition lost majority and needs to find new partner or get consent from opposition to ena…
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Heavy rain triggers landslides and floods in northern Japan
One person dead and several missing after deluge in Noto, still recovering from 1 January earthquakeHeavy rain…
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US ambassador to skip Nagasaki bomb commemoration over Israeli exclusion
City’s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear bl…
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Governor installs crowd control gate on Mount Fuji to limit tourists
Yamanashi prefecture brings in modest hiking fee to stop ‘bullet climbing’ and address safety concernsA crowd-…
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Japan earthquakes: tsunami alert dropped but residents told not to return to homes
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west co…
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Japan earthquakes: tsunami alert dropped but residents told not to return to homes
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west co…
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Japan earthquakes: tsunami alert dropped but residents told not to return to homes
The quakes, the largest of which had a magnitude of 7.6, started a fire and collapsed buildings on the west co…
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US air force Osprey crash wreckage and remains of five crew found off Japan
Aircraft crashed last week off south-western Japan carrying eight American personnel on training missionUS and…
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At least one dead after US military plane crashes off Japanese coast
Status of five other personnel aboard Osprey aircraft not known after incident off Yakushima island, off south…
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Japan court rules mandatory sterilisation of people officially changing gender unconstitutional
Judges reject requirement for trans people to remove reproductive organs for state-recognised gender changeA l…
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Japan: suspect detained after four killed in shooting and stabbing attack in Nagano
Police say two people were fatally stabbed and two police officers who came to investigate were shot deadJapan…
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Nursery schoolteachers arrested in Japan over abuse allegations
Three women held by police on suspicion of assaulting children at nursery school in city of SusonoPolice have …
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‘I was crying’: rocker Randy Bachman reunites with stolen guitar 45 years later
Guess Who member gets back the Gretsch that he used to write American Woman, after fan tracked it down in Toky…
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Court in Japan rejects claim by people lured to North Korea ‘paradise on Earth’
Plaintiffs say they endured decades of abuse after resettlement campaign in which Tokyo colludedA Tokyo court …
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Powerful Japan earthquake strikes off coast of Fukushima, killing four
Tsunami warning cancelled after quake cut power to 2m homes and damaged some buildingsA powerful 7.4 magnitude…
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Man arrested after at least 10 people stabbed on Tokyo train
Suspect left knife behind after fleeing commuter transit, with two people seriously injuredA man has stabbed a…
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Japan expands Covid state of emergency to four more areas
Measures in Tokyo also extended until 31 August, after the Olympics and well into the ParalympicsCoronavirus –…