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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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00:12

Japan Vows to Make Maximum Use of Nuclear Power

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2025/02/18

The Japanese government said Tuesday that the country will make maximum use of nuclear power, which does not emit carbon dioxide, as it is preparing for a surge in electricity demand from data centers.

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00:11

Shiba Inu Dog Kabosu Continues to Be Loved after Death

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2025/02/18

Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog known as the logo model for a cryptocurrency, remains hugely popular even after her death last May, with fan letters flooding in from around Japan.

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00:16

Japan Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 60 Pct...

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2025/02/18

The Japanese government said Tuesday that it will aim to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 60pctin fiscal 2035 from fiscal 2013 and 73pctin fiscal 2040 to achieve carbon neutrality in calendar 2050.

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00:13

Japan LDP Mulling Concession over Income Tax Threshold

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2025/02/17

Japan's government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party have begun discussions on a concession over a proposed hike in the 1.03-million-yen income tax threshold, an LDP executive said Monday.

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00:13

JR Tokai Unveils Disney-Themed Shinkansen Train

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2025/02/17

Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, unveiled a specially painted Shinkansen bullet train Monday with a theme of Fantasy Springs, a new area of the Tokyo DisneySea amusement park.

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00:13

Japan Biz Leaders Meet with Chinese Vice Premier

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2025/02/17

Japanese business leaders including Kosei Shindo, head of the Japan-China Economic Association and adviser to Nippon Steel Corp., met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Beijing on Monday.

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00:09

Japan's Prince Hisahito Obtains Driver's...

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2025/02/17

Japan's Prince Hisahito, the only son of Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, has obtained a driver's license, sources said.

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00:13

Japanese Believed to Be among Foreigners at Fraud...

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2025/02/17

Thai police agreed with embassy officials from about 20 countries, including Japan and China, on Monday to enhance information sharing over a Chinese criminal organization's fraud base near the Thai border in Myanmar.

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00:15

16 Major Japanese Cities Draft Record Budgets in FY 2025

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2025/02/17

Draft general-account budgets for fiscal 2025 hit record highs in 16 of Japan's 20 government ordinance-designated big cities, reflecting price hikes and expansion of child-rearing support, a Jiji Press tally showed Monday.

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