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Japan, Estonia agree to never accept nuclear North Korea

January 13, 2018

Tallinn,Estonia- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Estonian counterpart, Juri Ratas, agreed Friday to never accept a nuclear North Korea. In their meeting in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, Abe and Ratas also confirmed the need to fully enforce

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ICAN leader Fihn visits Nagasaki for first time

January 13, 2018

Nagasaki- Beatrice Fihn, leader of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, visited the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Friday. It was the ICAN executive director’s first visit to

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Economy watcher sentiment logs 1st fall in 5 months

January 13, 2018

Tokyo- Sentiment among so-called economy watchers, or people with economy-sensitive jobs, in Japan in December fell for the first time in five months, the Cabinet Office said Friday. The seasonally adjusted diffusion index on their sentiment compared with three months

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40% of households expected to be single-person ones in 2040

January 13, 2018

Tokyo- One-person households in Japan are seen increasing to 19.94 million in 2040, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all households, a government-affiliated research institute said Friday. The number of people aged 65 or over who are living alone is

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Abe rejects South Korean call for apology to ex-comfort women

January 13, 2018

Tokyo- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that he “absolutely cannot accept” South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s request for his government to make a sincere apology to so-called former comfort women. Abe’s remarks came about following a New Year’s

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Japan confirms sub spotted near Senkakus as Chinese

January 13, 2018

Tokyo- The Japanese government found out Friday a submarine that entered the contiguous zone surrounding Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture the previous day belongs to the Chinese navy. The confirmation was made on reports from

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ADB head cites need for effective urban planning in PH as wife upset after he was late 2hrs for dinner due to traffic

January 12, 2018

Admitting that his wife became upset after he failed to reach home for dinner on time due to heavy traffic  in Metro Manila, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao underscored on Friday the need for effective urban planning in the Philippines. In a

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Hundreds spend night aboard snow-trapped train in Niigata

January 12, 2018

Niigata- Hundreds of passengers were forced to stay overnight aboard a snow-trapped train in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, through Friday morning, with five of them claiming to be sick and one taken to a hospital, according to the train

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