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Columbia, Japan, Venezuela migration aid

July 5, 2019

Japan Ambassador for Colombia Keiichiro Morishita (L) signs the paperwork to donate 4,5 US million dollars to aid the Venezuelan migration crisis in Colombia with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) representative Joseph Merckx, in Bogota, July 4, 2019. (Photo by

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2019 Japan Expo in Paris

July 5, 2019

A man walks past an illuminated giant lantern at the 2019 Japan Expo exhibition in Villepinte, near Paris, on July 4, 2019. – Japan Expo, the largest European festival dedicated to Japanese culture and leisure, opens on July 4. (Photo

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Japan royal couple visit child care facility in Finland

July 5, 2019

Espoo, Finland–Japanese Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko visited on Thursday a maternity and child health care facility, known as neuvola, in Espoo, Finland. Neuvola, which originally started in Finland, provides constant support for families, from the pregnant period

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Cambodia art history

July 5, 2019

Artefacts are displayed during a ceremony in which 85 items were returned to the National Museum in Phnom Penh on July 5, 2019. – The artefacts were part of a collection of a Japanese antique collector. (Photo by TANG CHHIN

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South Korea Japan goods boycott

July 5, 2019

A retail outlet posts a notice stating that is neither selling nor buying Japanese products amid signs of the spreading of a boycott campaign, in Seoul, South Korea, 05 July 2019. Such moves followed the Japanese government’s recent steps to

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Sudo wins N.Y. hot dog eating contest for 6th straight year

July 5, 2019

New York–Miki Sudo won the women’s title in the Nathan’s Famous annual hot dog eating contest in New York for the sixth consecutive year on Thursday. At the Independence Day event on Coney Island, Sudo, a 33-year-old living in the

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Abe sets modest target for Upper House Election

July 4, 2019

Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has set a modest target of winning 53 seats for the ruling camp in the July 21 House of Councillors election, whose official campaign period started Thursday. Meanwhile, key members of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party

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Taiwan to halve tariffs on sake from Japan to 20 percent

July 4, 2019

Taipei–Taiwan is set to lower its tariffs on sake from Japan to 20 pct from the current 40 pct as early as in August. Taiwan will also cut its tariffs on such Japanese farm and fishery products as frozen “shishamo”

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