Laurel Loinaz receives Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays

August 19, 2019

Ma. Elena Laurel Loinaz received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays in a conferment ceremony held at the Japanese Ambassador’s residence on Friday, the Japanese Embassy said in a statement on Monday. The award, conferred by

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Prince Hisahito in Japan

August 18, 2019

This handout photograph taken and released by the Royal Office for Media Bhutan on August 17, 2019, shows Japan’s 12-year-old Prince Hisahito (2L) walkinh next to Bhutan’s Princess Dechen Yangzom Wangchuck and Princess Eeuphelma Choden Wangchuckupon upon arriving at Paro

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Japan: Android robot

August 18, 2019

TOPSHOT – This photo taken on June 18, 2019 shows an android robot at Kodaiji temple in Kyoto. – The 400-year-old temple in Japan is attempting to hot-wire interest in Buddhism with a robotic priest it believes will change the

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Japan food lifestyle

August 18, 2019

This picture taken on June 21, 2019 shows shop owner Koji Morinishi making a kakigori dessert with natural ice in the Yanaka district of Tokyo. – In a mountainous area north of Tokyo, Yuichiro Yamamoto bows and thanks the gods

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Netherlands Music Festival

August 18, 2019

Japanese women’s punk rock band Otoboke Beaver performs on the second day of the 27th edition of music festival A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands, 17 August 2019, issued 18 August 2019. EPA/PAUL BERGEN Jiji Press

INTERVIEW: Nippon Ishin blames delay in constitutional debate on diet

August 16, 2019

Tokyo–Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Innovation Party) Secretary-General Nobuyuki Baba has attributed the absence of full-fledged debate on Japan’s Constitution to negligence by the Diet, the country’s parliament. “No full discussions have been made at the commissions on the Constitution”

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Abe cabinet approval rate rises to 47 percent: Jiji Poll

August 16, 2019

Tokyo–The approval rate for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet stood at 47.0 pct in August, up 3.9 percentage points from the previous month, a Jiji Press opinion survey showed. The disapproval rate edged down 0.2 point to 30.8 pct,

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LDP Nikai dissatisfied with Japan, U.S. inaction over North Korea

August 16, 2019

Tokyo–Toshihiro Nikai, a top executive of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, expressed Friday dissatisfaction with what he sees as the inaction of Tokyo and Washington over a series of recent projectile launches by North Korea. Both the Japanese and U.S.

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