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Kumamoto pottery hit by quakes to be reborn with lacquer

September 7, 2017

Kanazawa- Akira Otaguro was organizing an online photo exhibition of pottery works with a potter friend in Kumamoto Prefecture when a series of powerful earthquakes jolted southwestern Japan in April last year. After learning that many pottery items produced by

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Coincident economic index drops in July

September 7, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s composite index of coincident economic indicators declined for the first time in two months in July, the Cabinet Office said Thursday. The coincident CI, which reflects current economic conditions, fell 1.2 points from the previous month to 115.6

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Kishida not mulling revising Constitution’s Article 9 for now

September 7, 2017

TOKYO- Fumio Kishida, chairman of the Policy Research Council of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has again expressed his cautious stance about revising war-renouncing Article 9 of the constitution. “I’m not considering for now” such a constitutional revision, Kishida said

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Japan eyes incentive for nursing homes to hire foreign trainees

September 7, 2017

TOKYO- Japan’s welfare ministry is considering giving elderly nursing homes an incentive to employ foreign trainees that the care sector will start accepting in November, it was learned Wednesday. At the day’s meeting of a subgroup of the Social Security

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US draft seeks to fully ban crude oil exports to N. Korea

September 7, 2017

NEW YORK- The United States on Wednesday distributed a draft of a new, very powerful UN Security Council sanctions resolution against North Korea featuring an all-out ban on crude oil exports to the country to all 14 other states comprising

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Abe seeks maximum int’l pressure on Pyongyang​

September 7, 2017

Vladivostok- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in a speech on Thursday, called for maximum international pressure on North Korea to prevent further provocations after its recent nuclear test and ballistic missile launches. “The international community should unite and maximize pressure”

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Abe, Putin agree to strengthen investments, exchanges in Far East

September 7, 2017

Vladivostok- Japan and Russia on Thursday concluded agreements to strengthen bilateral exchanges and investment in Russia’s Far East under the two countries’ eight-point economic cooperation plan. The documents, covering 56 public and private projects, were a result of a summit

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N. Korea n-test blast 10 times stronger than Hiroshima A-bomb

September 6, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Wednesday that North Korea’s nuclear test on Sunday may have generated an explosive yield of 160 kilotons of TNT, more than 10 times stronger than the US atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in

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