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Busan OKs ordinance for boycott of Japanese goods

September 6, 2019

Seoul–The city assembly of Busan in South Korea enacted on Friday an ordinance calling on the city government to make efforts to refrain from buying the products of certain Japanese companies. The ordinance brands Japanese businesses that requisitioned people from

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Victims remembered a year after powerful Hokkaido quake

September 6, 2019

Atsuma, Hokkaido–Hokkaido marked the first anniversary on Friday of a powerful earthquake that hit the northernmost Japan prefecture, with residents and officials paying tribute to the 44 victims including three who died due to indirect causes. In the town of

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Railway investiges driver’s actions after Yokohama collision

September 6, 2019

Yokohama–Keikyu Corp. is investigating whether the actions of the driver of its train that collided with a truck at a crossing in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on Thursday were appropriate. The railway thinks the train driver could have

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Abe welcomes progress on economic eooperation with Russia

September 6, 2019

Vladivostok, Russia–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday welcomed the progress made on the implementation of an eight-point Japan-Russia economic cooperation program that was proposed by Tokyo in 2016. “Persistence pays off,” Abe said when he discussed about the business

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Number of children on nursery waiting lists lowest in 2019

September 6, 2019

Tokyo–The number of children waiting to be accepted into nurseries in Japan came to a record low of 16,772 as of April 1 this year, down by 3,123 from a year before, the welfare ministry said Friday. The fall reflected

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Abe to visit Belgium after attending U.N. General Assembly

September 6, 2019

Tokyo–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the Belgian capital of Brussels in late September after attending a U.N. General Assembly session in New York, according to Japanese government sources. The Japanese leader will deliver a keynote speech at the

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INTERVIEW: “Anne of Green Gables” still popular in Japan thanks to freedom theme

September 6, 2019

Prince Edward Island, Canada–A grandchild of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), best known for “Anne of Green Gables,” a novel featuring Anne Shirley, a fictional red-haired orphan girl, attributes the best seller’s long popularity in Japan to the work’s

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Panelo hits Trillanes for vilifying his name over Sanchez’s case

September 6, 2019

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo slammed on Friday former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for vilifying his name by saying that he was “untouchable.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that unlike in the Aquino administration wherein there were so-called

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