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JR West Starts Testing Info Service Robots

October 2, 2018

Osaka- West Japan Railway Co. on Tuesday started testing Japanese and foreign-language information services using robots featuring artificial intelligence. The railway operator, known as JR West, hopes that the use of the robots will shorten the waiting time for customers

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U.K. Media Report about Japan Assemblywoman Thrown Out of Meeting

October 2, 2018

London- British media on Monday reported about a Japanese politician who was ordered to leave a meeting of a southwestern Japan municipal assembly for speaking at the podium with a cough drop in her mouth. The incident “casts a sharp

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Abe Congratulates Nobel Winner Honjo

October 2, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe congratulated Tasuku Honjo, professor at Kyoto University, on Monday for winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a cancer therapy making use of the immune system. “As Japanese, I feel

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Former Japan Prime Minister Fukuda calls on ASEAN to unite and solve challenges

October 1, 2018

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Monday called on leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to maintain its unity to cope with issues and challenges. In his keynote speech before the symposium marking the 41st founding of

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Japan’s Honjo Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

October 1, 2018

Tokyo- Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said Monday it will award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Tasuku Honjo, professor at Japan’s Kyoto University, and U.S. immunologist James Allison for their discovery of a new cancer therapy utilizing immune

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Int’l Conservation Panel to Discuss Japan’s Sei Whale Hunting

October 1, 2018

Sochi, Russia- An international conservation panel is slated to discuss Japanese hunting of sei whales in the northwestern Pacific on Tuesday, at a meeting in the southern Russian city of Sochi. The standing committee of the Convention on International Trade

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Abe to Retain Key Ministers in Cabinet Reshuffle on Tues.

October 1, 2018

Tokyo- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to keep Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso, 78, and other key allies in his cabinet, which he will reshuffle on Tuesday, following his victory in the Sept. 20 leadership election

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S. Korea Urges Japan to Consider Impact of Wartime Flag

October 1, 2018

Seoul- South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon on Monday called on Japan to take account of the impact of its plan to show, in an international fleet review off South Korea’s Jeju Island this month, the rising sun flag used

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