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Monthly Number of Visitors to Japan Hits Record High...

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2025/02/19

The monthly number of foreign visitors to Japan hit a record high in January, partly reflecting travel demand from China and other parts of Asia during the Lunar New Year holiday period, a Japan National Tourism Organization report showed Wednesday.

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00:07

Major Japanese Automakers Wary of Trump Tariffs

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2025/02/19

Major Japanese automakers are seeking strategies to handle U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs.

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00:13

14 Years On: Miyagi Governor Stresses Importance of...

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2025/02/19

Mental health care and the rebuilding of local communities remain challenging issues in Miyagi Prefecture 14 years after a massive earthquake and tsunami, Governor Yoshihiro Murai said in an interview on Tuesday.

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00:10

Japan Economic Magazines before, during WWII Released...

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2025/02/19

The Japan Press Research Institute released digitized editions of "Kokusai Keizai Shuho" ()削除, published before and during World War II, on its website Wednesday.

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00:12

Japan Core Machinery Orders Fall 1.2 Pct in Dec.

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2025/02/19

Japan's seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in December last year fell 1.2pctfrom the previous month, the first decline in three months, the Cabinet Office said Wednesday.

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00:16

14 Years On: Iwate to Ask for Continued...

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2025/02/19

Iwate Prefecture will ask the Japanese government for continued assistance after the second-phase reconstruction period expires at the end of fiscal 2025 following a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, Governor Takuya Tasso said in an interview.

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00:14

Man Gets 10 Years over Attack on Ex-Japan PM Kishida

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2025/02/19

A Japanese district court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to 10 years in prison over a high-profile attack on then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a campaign trail in the western city of Wakayama in 2023.

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00:10

Japan Norinchukin Bank Pres. to Resign after Huge Loss

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2025/02/18

Norinchukin Bank President Kazuto Oku plans to step down as early as the end of March after the Japanese lender reported a huge net loss, it was learned Tuesday.

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00:16

Japan, IAEA to Cooperate in Fukushima N-Plant...

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2025/02/18

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, agreed on Tuesday to strengthen cooperation in work to decommission and dismantle the meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

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00:11

Japan to Skip Nuke Ban Treaty Meeting Again

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2025/02/18

Japan will not participate as an observer in the third meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in New York in March, Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Tuesday.

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00:12

Japan Urges Taliban Officials to Cooperate with...

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2025/02/18

A senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official met with visiting senior officials of Afghanistan's Taliban-led interim government in Tokyo on Tuesday and urged them to cooperate with the international community.

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00:13

LDP Proposes 1.6-M.-Yen Tax-Free Income Portion

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2025/02/18

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday proposed increasing the tax-free portion of annual income to 1.6 million yen, but only for people with annual incomes of 2 million yen or less.

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00:12

Ex-Heads Oppose Japan Govt's Science Council...

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2025/02/18

Six former presidents of the Science Council of Japan urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday to scrap a planned bill that would transform the council into a corporation separate from the government.

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00:11

Yet Another Court Finds 2024 Lower House Poll...

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2025/02/18

The Naha branch of Fukuoka High Court on Tuesday found last year's House of Representatives election constitutional in terms of vote-value disparity, following similar rulings on the event.

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00:13

Japan to Allow Taiwan as Nationality in Family Register

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2025/02/18

Japan will allow regions to be recorded as nationalities under its family register system, enabling people from Taiwan to write the self-governing island instead of China, Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki said Tuesday.

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00:13

Man Gets Indefinite Term for Robbery in Tokyo's...

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2025/02/18

Tokyo District Court's Tachikawa branch on Tuesday gave an indefinite prison term, as sought by prosecutors, to a 54-year-old man over a robbery resulting in death in Komae, Tokyo, about two years ago.

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00:14

Japan Priest Wants to Help People in Hospitals,...

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2025/02/18

Buddhist priest Kodai Furutani, known for online videos explaining the teachings of Buddhism in an easy-to-understand manner, hopes to become a "clinical" chaplain providing mental and spiritual support in hospitals and disaster-hit areas.

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00:16

Hong Kong Game Firm Faces 1.8-B.-Yen Back Taxes in Japan

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2025/02/18

The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau has imposed some 1.8 billion yen in back taxes, including penalties, on a Hong Kong-based game company for failing to pay in Japan consumption tax associated with revenue from in-game spending, it was learned Tuesday.

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00:12

Safe Deposit Box Thefts Found at Mizuho Bank

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2025/02/18

A former employee at Mizuho Bank had stolen several tens of millions of yen in assets from two customers' safe deposit boxes several years ago, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

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00:13

Ex-Abe Faction Accountant to Be Questioned Thurs.

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2025/02/18

The House of Representatives Budget Committee agreed Tuesday to question on Thursday a former chief accountant of a now-defunct faction of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party over a high-profile slush funds scandal.

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