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Festival begins in disaster-hit Ishinomaki

July 23, 2017

ISHINOMAKI, MIYAGI PREF.- An art, music and food festival kicked off in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Saturday to help revitalize the Tohoku northeastern Japan region hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the event, “Reborn-Art Festival,” which will run through Sept.

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Heavy rain causes flooding in Akita Prefecture

Heavy rain causes flooding in Akita Prefecture

July 23, 2017

AKITA- Heavy rain continued in Akita Prefecture on Sunday, causing flooding from the Omono river in the northeastern Japan prefecture. The land ministry and the Japan Meteorological Agency warned of possible inundation in some areas in the city of Daisen.

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High-tech devices to play key roles for Tokyo Olympics security

July 22, 2017

TOKYO- Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department aims to ensure security at stadiums and other facilities when the Japanese capital hosts the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics by making full use of latest high-tech gadgets. Aiming to figure out how best to guard

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Osaka University to launch world’s first iPS clinical study of heart disease treatment

July 22, 2017

OSAKA- A research group led by Yoshiki Sawa, professor at Osaka University, has filed with a committee of the university for the world’s first clinical study on a heart disease treatment using iPS cells. If the project is approved by

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Hakuho sets new record with 1,048 career wins

July 22, 2017

NAGOYA- Yokozuna sumo grand champion Hakuho set a new record on Friday by earning the 1,048th win in his professional career in the Japanese national sport. Hakuho thus passed former ozeki champion Kaio, with 1,047 career wins. The 32-year-old yokozuna, who belongs

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Fewer people in Japan, South Korea back comfort women deal

July 22, 2017

TOKYO- Fewer people both in Japan and South Korea supported a bilateral agreement reached in 2015 to settle a dispute over comfort women this year than in the previous year, a joint annual opinion poll by think tanks in the

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Inada accepts hearing by inspectors, denies cover-up

July 22, 2017

TOKYO- Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada on Friday accepted a hearing in the ongoing special investigation, ordered by herself, over Ground Self-Defense Force troops’ daily logs on peacekeeping operations in South Sudan and denied a cover-up of electronic data on the GSDF

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Fitzgerald said to be responsible for collision off Japan: CNN

July 22, 2017

WASHINGTON- US defense officials have indicated that the USS Fitzgerald is responsible for its collision with a Philippine-registered container vessel off central Japan last month, CNN reported on Friday. The US Aegis destroyer’s crew “did nothing until the last second,” an

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