Japan Crown Prince Visits High-Tech R&D Center in Grenoble

September 11, 2018

Lyon- Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito visited a research and development center for cutting-edge technologies in Grenoble in southeastern France on Monday. At Minatec, a core facility of the Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies (GIANT), the Crown Prince inspected items

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Japan Govt OKs Opening of Tokyo’s Toyosu Market

September 11, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Ken Saito on Monday approved the opening of the Toyosu new wholesale food market in Tokyo’s Koto Ward to succeed the iconic but aging Tsukiji market in neighboring Chuo Ward in the capital.

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Abe, Putin Agree on Roadmap for Joint Isle Activities

September 11, 2018

Vladivostok, Russia- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday on a roadmap for joint economic activities in five priority areas on and around northwestern Pacific islands at the center of a longstanding bilateral territorial dispute.

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Japanese Man Indicted for Killing 9 at Apartment

September 10, 2018

Tokyo- Public prosecutors indicted a 27-year-old man on Monday for the alleged robbery-murders of nine people at his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, was arrested mainly on murder charges but prosecutors switched the charges

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70 Pct of Hospitals near Fukushima N-Plant Bleeding Red

September 10, 2018

Fukushima- Some 70 pct of medical institutions near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s  disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station are operating in the red after restarting services, in the face of lower patient numbers and mounting labor costs.

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Elementary Schools in Quake-Hit Sapporo Resuming Classes

September 10, 2018

Sapporo- About 60 pct of public elementary schools in Sapporo, the capital of the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, resumed classes on Monday, after a deadly earthquake hit the prefecture on Thursday. The 124 public elementary schools in the city decided

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Abe Says to Submit Top Law Amendment Proposal in Autumn

September 10, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party he will aim to submit the party’s constitutional amendment proposal to an extraordinary parliamentary session likely to be held in autumn. Abe, 63,

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Last Missing Person Found Dead in Hokkaido Quake, Pushing Up Death Toll to 40

September 10, 2018

Sapporo- The death toll from a powerful earthquake that severely damaged the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido on Thursday reached 40 as the last missing person in the disaster was found and confirmed dead in the small hours of Monday.

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