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Japan ministry worker misplaces sensitive files during night out
A Japanese finance ministry employee on a night out with colleagues lost documents containing the personal data of 187 people suspected of drug smuggling, local media say.
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Interpreter of baseball star Ohtani jailed for $17 million gambling fraud
Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star Shohei Ohtani, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for a fraud and gambling scheme.
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Kanye West loses $20 million Tokyo gigs after shocking Grammys stunt with Bianca Censori, misjudging Japanese tolerance
Kanye West has lost a $20 million deal to play in Japan as a result of his controversial stunt at the Grammys, according to sources in Tokyo.
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Japan to stop funding UN women’s rights panel due to call for ending male-only imperial succession
Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.
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Amid loneliness and struggle, some elderly Japanese women opt for jail
The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.
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Two private lunar landers embark on a roundabout journey to the moon
Firefly Aerospace from the US and the Japanese firm ispace shared the ride with SpaceX from the Kennedy Space Centre to save money.
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UK unveils £12 billion next-generation combat aircraft program
New fighter jets set to replace the RAF’s Typhoons have been seen for the first time.
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Eight students injured in hammer attack at Tokyo university
Japanese police say 22-year-old woman arrested as witness describes panic after attacker ‘all of a sudden’ began swinging hammer in classroom.
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Japanese yakuza leader admits to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar
US authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weapons.
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Sushi restaurateurs spend $1.3 million on a motorbike-sized tuna at a Tokyo auction
Onodera Group paid second highest price ever at prestigious annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish market.
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Japan’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, passes away at 116
Itooka was born in 1908 in Osaka and and had four children along with five grandchildren. Japan has over 95,000 people aged 100 or older.
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Russia was developing plans for attacks on Japan and South Korea - FT
Journalists have published data obtained from 29 secret Russian military files.
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group
Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’
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A buried U.S. Second World War bomb has exploded at a Japanese airport
Unexpected blast at Miyazaki airport makes crater in taxiway and leads to grounding of 80 flights but no injuries
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World’s longest-serving death row inmate, Iwao Hakamada, 88, acquitted after 56 years awaiting execution
The world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted over 50 years after his sentencing.
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Millions forced to evacuate as Typhoon Shanshan strikes Japan
Millions of people have been ordered to leave their homes after Typhoon Shanshan hit Japan.
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Fears of US recession send stock markets tumbling
Concerns have been raised after the world’s largest economy reported much lower-than-expected job creation in July.
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted in Japan
Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, has been arrested on an international warrant and is facing charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass
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British chipmaker Graphcore bought by Japan’s SoftBank
Deal for undisclosed sum secures Bristol-based company’s future after ‘material uncertainty’ in 2023
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A man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes to clear his name
Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict
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Japanese royals to receive UK red-carpet treatment
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan are beginning a three-day state visit to the UK.
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Life after deaths: How nations reconcile following bloody conflicts
With a “peace summit” set to take place in Switzerland later this June, speculation is again rampant regarding the potential for ending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine via some form of diplomatic solution.
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Firm at centre of Post Office scandal is still being given govt deals after vowing not to take new taxpayer-funded works
Fujitsu’s UK public sector chief said the promise it made was simply an ’extra gateway check’ for the firm
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7.4 magnitude quake hits Taiwan, strongest in 25 years
People rescued from buildings in cities of Hualien and Taipei amid continuing aftershocks from Taiwan’s strongest quake in decades
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Japanese locals warned not to touch cat after it falls into tank of chemicals
Officials believe the cat fell into a vat of hexavalent chromium - a highly acidic and carcinogenic chemical that can cause skin irritation, breathing difficulties and blindness
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