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Boy, 5, killed after arm trapped in ski resort travelator in Japan
Hinata Goto reportedly fell as he was trying to get off the 30-metre-long walkwayA five-year-old boy has died …
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Whisky maker Suntory’s CEO resigns amid investigation into suspected illegal supplements
Takeshi Niinami bought supplements in the belief that they were legal, says Jim Beam and Laphroaig ownerBusine…
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Amid stifling summers Japan warns of future restrictions on children’s sport
As soon as 2060, global heating may send temperatures high enough to stop children in most parts of country fr…
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Japan walks line between recession and submission as it seeks to overcome Trump tariffs
Japanese negotiators have just days before the end of Trump’s 90-day pause on punishing tariffs to pull off a …
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Japan’s World Expo: a positive vision of the future for our divided world?
Fifty-five years since Osaka last hosted, rocks from Mars, domestic androids and artificial hearts are part of…
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Japan unveils first plan to evacuate 100,000 civilians from islands near Taiwan in event of conflict
Prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan has forced Japan to step up measures to protect islands in Okinawa pr…
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Japan relaxes bear-shooting laws amid rise in attacks
Authorities relax laws to make it easier for hunters to carry out ‘emergency shootings’ when bears are spotted…
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‘I couldn’t say no’: anger grows over topless medical exams in Japan schools
Parents and campaigners have called on education and health authorities to end the practice of requiring child…
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Court orders Japanese government to pay damages over forced sterilisations
Japan’s supreme court rules that practice under now-defunct eugenics law was unconstitutionalJapan’s supreme c…
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Japan to allow divorced parents to share custody of children
Change to civil code will bring Japan into line with other G7 countries, amid concerns existing law inflicts p…
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While Biden and Kishida exchange praise in Washington, Japan is asking ‘what if Trump’?
Despite warm words from the US and Japanese leaders during their summit this week, back in Japan the spectre o…
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Pioneering Hawaiian-born sumo champion Akebono dies aged 54
Tributes paid to wrestler, who was born Chad Rowan and became the sport’s first non-Japanese grand champion in…
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Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor
Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requ…
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Bonsai trees and a royal birthday: Japan’s imperial family dips a careful toe in world of Instagram
Meme-worthy content appears in short supply, at least initially, as world’s oldest royal family embarks on its…
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‘Ruining my career’: calls grow for Japan to change law on married surnames
Japan is the only country in the world that requires spouses to use the same name, but after decades of inacti…
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Japanese kabuki actor gets suspended sentence for assisting parents’ suicide
Ennosuke Ichikawa was part of apparent family pact to take their own lives after he learned he was to be accus…
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‘Pachi pachi’ or ‘kachi kachi’? Japan launches foreigners’ guide to tricky world of onomatopoeia
As foreign population reaches record levels, the western prefecture of Mie has compiled a guide for those who …
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Japan gets a new island after undersea volcano erupts
New landmass about 100 metres across pops up above the waves near Iwoto island after eruptions began last mont…
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Osaka’s baseball underdogs hope one more win will lift curse of KFC
Many in the city have put the Hanshin Tigers’ lack of success down to an unusual Colonel Sanders-based superst…
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Costs, delays and labour shortages threaten the Osaka world expo
Japan hopes the fair in 2025 will reconnect it with the global community after Covid but calls are growing to …