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Japan Governors to Review Disaster Victim Support System

July 26, 2018

Sapporo- Japanese prefectural governors agreed on Thursday to set up a working group to review the system designed to financially support disaster victims’ efforts to rebuild their lives. The agreement came on the first day of a two-day meeting of

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19 Victims Mourned 2 Years after Sagamihara Care Home Stabbing

July 26, 2018

Sagamihara, Kanagawa Pref.- The 19 people killed in a stabbing rampage at a care home for disabled people in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, were remembered on Thursday, which marked the second anniversary of the tragic

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Another Japan Education Ministry Exec Held for Bribe-Taking

July 26, 2018

Tokyo- Public prosecutors arrested a Japanese education ministry executive on Thursday on suspicion of taking bribes from a medical consultant firm for giving the company favorable treatment. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s special investigation squad arrested Kazuaki Kawabata, 57,

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Japan Executes All Remaining Ex-Aum Members on Death Row

July 26, 2018

Tokyo- Japan’s Justice Ministry on Thursday executed all of the six remaining former senior members of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on death row. The executions followed the July 6 hangings of Aum leader Chizuo Matsumoto, 63, who also went

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Japan Hosts Int’l Maritime Drills against Weapons Spread

July 26, 2018

Tokyo- The Japanese government is hosting international maritime drills for preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction based on the Proliferation Security Initiative. The PSI, proposed by the United States in 2003, is an international framework of efforts to

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Japan Panel Proposes 26-Yen Hike in Average Minimum Wage

July 26, 2018

Tokyo- A Japanese labor ministry panel recommended Thursday that the country’s average minimum hourly wage for fiscal 2018 be raised by 26 yen from the previous year, the largest hike since comparable figures became available in fiscal 2002. The Central

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Abe, Maas Agree to Strengthen Economic Ties

July 26, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas Wednesday agreed to further strengthen economic ties between their countries. During their meeting in the prime minister’s office in Tokyo, Abe told Maas that last week’s signing of

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Japan’s Mojiko Station to Go Back to 1914 Design

July 26, 2018

Fukuoka- Kyushu Railway Co. said Wednesday that it will bring back the original 1914 exterior design to its Mojiko Station building in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The railway operator, known as JR Kyushu, plans to spend 2.2 billion yen

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